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Microsoft Working on Porting Sysinternals To Linux (zdnet.com)

Posted by msmash on from the how-about-that dept.

An anonymous reader writes: A Microsoft exec has confirmed yesterday that the company's engineers are working on porting the highly popular Sysinternals software package to Linux. Microsoft engineers have already ported the ProcDump utility and are currently working on porting ProcMon as well. More tools to follow.

Microsoft's decision to port this highly popular debugging utility to Linux comes after two months ago, in September, Scott Guthrie, Microsoft's executive vice president of the cloud and enterprise group, revealed that "sometimes slightly over half of Azure VMs are Linux." With Linux's growing adoption as the preferred OS for running Azure VMs, it's only natural that Azure engineers are now looking into porting their favorite debugging utilities to Linux, for both themselves but also for the company's customers.

6 of 183 comments (clear)

  1. The new code... by reanjr · · Score: 5, Funny

    The Linux port operates on the command line, and is simply two line bash scripts and aliases.

  2. with an EULA that gives MS full rights to your by Joe_Dragon · · Score: 3, Funny

    with an EULA that gives MS full rights to your system.

  3. Re:How pointless is that by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    port these highly OS-specific tools to Linux

    I'm thrilled to finally have regmon.exe on Linux. That's gonna be a life saver when systemd-registryd is rolled out!

  4. BSOD by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hi hope they port the BSOD screensaver from the sysinternals kit as well.

    1. Re:BSOD by Tablizer · · Score: 2, Funny

      Hi hope they port the BSOD screensaver from the sysinternals kit as well.

      They did; it's called "systemd".

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      Table-ized A.I.
  5. This is one step, not the goal. Someone got confus by raymorris · · Score: 4, Funny

    I think there are two possible explanations for this.

    Most likely:
    The boss figured out there is no reason for Microsoft to keep developing their own kernel when they can just slap their UI on top of Linux. The boss said "port the system internals to Linux". A programmer got confused and ported SysInternals", the toolkit for seeing the system internals.

    Also likely:

    The eventual goal is to switch the system internals to Linux.
    In Agile fashion, Microsoft figured they'd start with a bite-sizdd chunk work that feels like it might be kinda going in that direction. It won't actually be used in the end, because it wasn't planned out, it was Scrumed.