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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.

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  1. How pointless is that by fisted · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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

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    1. 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!

  2. 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.

  3. Re:I don't know how by ctilsie242 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    There is a difference. Back in the Halloween Documents era, MS wasn't making money from Linux. Now, they make money, hand-over-fist over Linux. That Android phone? MS makes something from each and every one of those. Azure? It doesn't really matter what OS people run on their cloud platform; they get charged for the VM anyway, so might as well make Linux work better.

    MS is in an odd position where their financial interests lie in keeping Linux going, so if they want to port some of their useful utilities, more power to them.

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

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