Unix To Beef Up Longhorn

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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Re:Europeans -- mod this up!

[Anonymous Coward]

Your point would be better made leaving out the sitcoms and free speech comments. Speech is more free here than a lot of other places, and generally humor tends to vary from place to place. The same could be said that britain has "dry humor" that is unappealing to Americans. It just depends on taste. The fact that Americans choose that is exactly that. Their choice. Not that anyone is going to read this, because you'll be modded down as a troll, and I'm just feeding...

Re:Slashdot.

[CompWerks]

It's Lunchtime here on the East Coast - ./'ing is in primetime. :)

Re:Europeans -- mod this up!

[Ignatius_VI]

Your post is off topic and ignorant. Anyone who mods it anything besides "off topic" doesn't deserve any mod points.

Worst crime levels in the world? Where are you getting your numbers from?

"Democracy" as a rich white male? Was there an alternative in the last election? Besides, that alone says you are judging on race, making yourself racist.

We can violate international laws because we got the force to back it up. In the end, might is what counts. Sorry, welcome to reality.

Freedom of speech might mean the KKK, but it also means women's rights. Interesting double sided coin, eh?

Massive poverty gap. Yeah, I can see that as a problem. I think we need to stop paying 70% of the UN's salaries and put that money toward homeless vet shelters and that of the sort.

Barely 300 years of history? Gotta start somewhere. How about the countries that were created after World War I?

I hate our sitcoms too. Don't generalize. Ask individuals what they think. Thanks.

Obesity is a growing problem. People need to start to control themselves.

Corporations aren't necessarily running backhanded deals such as Enron. Government services aren't the most clean cut, efficient things around either, you know.

Wasting billions to attack foreign countries. That's an interesting one too. I don't remember voting to go into Iraq. Going back up a few lines, how about you ask the individual what they think about it, rather than generalize?

Stop making yourself look like an idiot, anonymous coward. Get core facts to back up statements like that.

FYI

[Bill, Shooter of Bul]

I think he is speaking german.

God Bless America, where "freedom of speech" means race-hate groups like KKK

As you know, groups such as the nazis are outlawed in germany.

Re:FYI

[Entropius]

I can't vote with my dollars where it counts.

I don't like Microsoft, so I don't give them any of my money. That's voting with my money, and is how the system is supposed to work.

I don't like US militarism, but I have no choice but to fund it--if I try to spend my money elsewhere, I'll get thrown in jail for tax evasion.

Why can't this country do something useful with its vast wealth instead of building unneeded weapons and funding unjustified wars?

Re:S(T)FU

[Anonymous Coward]

hmmmm you know I think that's a very childish and vice-presidential sort of attitude - these days there's not much difference

Re:Europeans -- mod this up!

[Chess_the_cat]

That's why Stalin was begging the Allies for a second front I guess. The only reason the Russians had such huge victories was because they had millions of peasants to throw in the line. And I seem to remember Russia not wanting to leave Europe once the war was over but that couldn't be right, could it?

Canadian uranium? lmao! Look! It's an inanimate carbon rod! He saved the day!

Re:Europeans -- mod this up!

[dddno]

all of you europeans would be speaking German

We speak English instead. Seemed a good idea at first, but less and less so lately.

SFU stands for Simon Fraser University

[roozee]

I'm a graduate student in SFU!

Roozbeh/