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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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  1. In other news.. by Rhesus+Piece · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    In other news, up is down, left is right,
    and OS X is ugly.

  2. Re:Europeans -- mod this up! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    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...

  3. Re:Slashdot. by CompWerks · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    It's Lunchtime here on the East Coast - ./'ing is in primetime. :)

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  4. Re:Europeans -- mod this up! by Ignatius_VI · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    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.

  5. FYI by Bill,+Shooter+of+Bul · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    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.

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    1. Re:FYI by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      It's amazing how many people from outside the U.S. see things as the right way and the wrong way, when the only right thing to do is let people choose for themselves, thats what a jeffersonian democracy means, it means not letting anyone decide for everyone, but let each choose for themselves. There are many crappy things that people see in our system, but they have a choice not to participate in what they don't like, while still participating in what they do want! Vote with your Dollars/Feet!

    2. Re:FYI by Entropius · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      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?

  6. Re:They mean of course. . . by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You know as well as I that you would fuck a 15 year old Vally Girl if you had the chance, don't lie. That nice warm wet tight twat wrapped around your cock... You know you want it. And after you blow your load up her pussy, you pull out and she licks your rod clean with those pouty little lips... You know you want it... She's on the pill, don't worry.

  7. FUD - WFC - FUD - WFC - FUD - WFC by webzombie · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Who fuckin' cares!

    Get real folks... MS is spending million$ trying to convince anyone not on life support that Linux is a worthless, part time hobby yet they feel compelled to offer support for some of its functionality in a sooooooooooooon to be released OS that is going to revolutionize how monopolies rule!

    Thank the coding gods for that!

  8. Re:Europeans -- mod this up! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    And besides, if it wasn't for america, all of you europeans would be speaking German.

    Umm Yeah... Thanks for the lend-lease tanks and all. Yeah the ones we kept paying for 30 ywears after the war ended. Thanks again for making all those god's given truth movies where the johnny-come-lately Americans single handedly defeat the SS menace while the rest of the world only provided a couple of colourful minor characters.

    The reason all of Europe isn't speaking German is because the Russians kicked nazi ass all the way from Moscow to Berlin and beyond. I guess Europe could thank the yanks and their A-bomb for not having to speak Russian but wait - german-jewish scientists, british technologists and candian uranium had something to do with that too.

    So - thanks for the help but stop being arrogant pricks and claiming you did it all.

  9. Re:S(T)FU by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

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

  10. Re:Europeans -- mod this up! by Chess_the_cat · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    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!

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  11. Thank you by IWantMyNickBack · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Thanks for pointing out the problems with our country. Really, THIS IS NOT SARCASTIC I'M SERIOUS! Now, can you make the congress help crime instead of wasting money enforcing copyright where they have the power to eliminate it? Maby I should make a parody of Europe now, should I? No wait, a parody of Earth!

  12. Re:Europeans -- mod this up! by dddno · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    all of you europeans would be speaking German

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

  13. SFU stands for Simon Fraser University by roozee · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    I'm a graduate student in SFU!

    Roozbeh/