Linux is Most Used OS in Microsoft Azure – over 50 percent of VM cores

Re:Linux is Most Used OS in Microsoft Azure – over 50 percen... by pjmlp on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @01:40AM (#23163821)

Lots of FUD and misunderstanding going on there.

Windows NT, which is what everyone uses, is a descendant of VMS design and culture, built for shared file systems, multi-user accounts, and distributed computing just like UNIX.

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Re:Linux is Most Used OS in Microsoft Azure – over 50 percen... by kalleboo on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @02:42AM (#23164147)

GP is unfair in as you say, NT was a from-the-ground-up new OS based on VMS design without the single-user baggage of old DOS/Windows.

But still for a long time Windows NT made a lot of concessions to the single-GUI-user model that UNIXes didn't, like putting font rendering in the kernel.

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Re:Linux is Most Used OS in Microsoft Azure – over 50 percen... by pjmlp on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @03:27AM (#23164393)

Except for UNIXes like NeXTSTEP and Sun NeWS, as no other UNIX ever had any clue about GUI development, as Jobs used to say.

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