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Unix To Beef Up Longhorn

Posted by Hemos on from the going-to-the-root-of-the-matter dept.

An anonymous reader writes "VNUnet has a story about Longhorn having the ability to run unix or linux code via SFU." Microsoft's site has a lot more information about SFU itself. Regardless of ideological bent, it's an interesting piece o' technology.

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  1. Bender's Take by ari_j · · Score: 5, Funny

    Interesting. No, wait...that other thing. Tedious.

  2. STFU by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Anybody else first read that as STFU? Seems oddly appropriate somehow.

  3. uh.. by SpooForBrains · · Score: 5, Funny

    longhorn:~# cd / er, no, I mean, cd \ ... I mean ... ohsodit

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    1. Re:uh.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      you probably meant: rm -rf \

  4. Finally... by shackma2 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Finally, I can run my linux apps in a secure enviorment.

  5. SFU? by digidave · · Score: 5, Funny

    This Shut the Fuck Up technology sounds interesting. Can I use it on an airplane or bus when people around me too loud?

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  6. Wow... by Ayaress · · Score: 5, Funny

    All the simplicity of Unix.
    All the stability of Windows.

    Didn't somebody at Microsoft think to reverse things? They'd be furthur ahead to try to fix what they have before adding what everybody else has.

  7. Distributing GCC by WhyDoubt · · Score: 5, Funny

    > SFU is not shipped with Windows because SFU
    > currently contains open-source software, such as
    > the GNU C compiler, which cannot be distributed
    > with commercial software.

    Where's that clue-stick of mine? I feel the need to beat someone over the head with it.

  8. Re:S(T)FU by CdBee · · Score: 5, Funny

    "So, how did you compile KDE on Windows?"

    "SFU, noob!"

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  9. Re:heh... by NanoGator · · Score: 5, Funny

    "first microsoft gives us bullcrap statistics about how "windows outpeforms linux" and now this? does anyone else find it comical?"

    No. This smells more of "make it easier to migrate if you're using *Nix" than "we'll work faster with their stuff". Comical is the use of the acronymn SFU for the services for Unix.

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  10. In other acronyms.... by gosand · · Score: 5, Funny
    And you can tell they don't want to admit it because it's named Windows Services for UNIX. UNIX Services for Windows is more correct, but they want you to believe that Windows is empowering UNIX instead of the other way around.

    Why don't they just name it Functional Unix Distribution and get the whole acronym thing out in the open.

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