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

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.

Comments

How pointless is that

[fisted]

This is actually funny and sad. Don't the MS people realize that the only reason for using "sysinternals" is that their OS doesn't come with decent instrumentation by default? This toolset doesn't even come close to what's natively available in Unix or Linux.

smh

Re:How pointless is that

[MightyYar]

There is at least some benefit in having their entire team using a single tool across platforms. Apparently deemed worth the porting effort, anyway.

Re:How pointless is that

[mangastudent]

In their favor, it's MIT licensed. That's hard to abuse in a way negative for Linux except by using patents.

Why?

[DarkOx]

Wouldn't it be easier to make a nice gtk front end for strace or something?