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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Comes To Windows 10 in the Form of WLinux Enterprise (betanews.com)
Mark Wilson writes: Earlier in the year open-source software startup Whitewater Foundry brought WLinux to the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). Not content with creating the first native Linux distribution for WSL, the company has now gone a step further, targeting enterprise users with WLinux Enterprise. Whitewater Foundry says that WLinux Enterprise is the first product to support the industry-standard Red Hat Enterprise Linux on Windows Subsystem for Linux.
Oh my God job security here I come
Poettering announced today that from now on systemd will include an integrated kernel as part of systemd. Systemd-kernel is a mostly compatible replacement for the Linux kernel, but is a hybrid between Linux and MS DOS 2.0.
The kernel integration was fast-tracked, having previously been scheduled to occur only after the integration of the new systemd-officesuite and renaming of systemd to Officed.
Responding to criticism that systemd just keeps getting bigger, Poettering pointed out that some things are actually being removed. Specifically, they plan to separate out the systemd / Officed init system and make that a separate project. The newly independent init system will be called SysFkdInit.
This subsystem thing makes no sense for me. After all, the point of using Linux is to not use Windows!
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I don't see who would actually want to deploy this The primary reason I use Linux is for it to be a stable underpinning to either host Windows or other Linux or applications. The reasons not to use Windows is because it's basically a desktop OS. Live patching the kernel still doesn't happen on Windows and even though Linux is on more systems than ever, so the market share argument doesn't hold anymore, Windows bugs are still major issues all the time requiring reboots for even the simplest of subsystems.
On the other hand, if I need Linux on a Workstation, it's because the Windows systems doesn't have good hardware support (eg. gpGPU, Real-Time timing support, configurable interrupts, InfiniBand, ASIC, 10/40/100G networking) so a subsystem of Windows wouldn't do me any good.
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I use WSL with so-called Debian every day. It's useful for programming but very limited and not production quality. Microsoft explicitly states that WSL is not intended or recommended for production applications.
One issue I ran into was writing to the end of an r+ open file. Explicitly placing a new record at the end by byte-number is inconsistent between openings of the file. I found that the exact positioning is a byte off via the Linux VFS verses the NTFS. If you check environment, your code can thus account for this. However, when using WSL, it's inconsistent between each time you open the file. Open once and read/write all you want. Close and re-open and it's scewed by one byte position.
I imagine there are other issues. Overall, I am happy that WSL exists but yes, they did not name it properly. It's not Linux at all. And the Debian for it, is not Debian, either.. Also, it would be so nice if they could make Xorg work...
If I were a Microsoft executive, I would have created Microsoft Linux a long time ago... Build in .Net and PowerShell. Give Red Hat a run for its money.