Hell has not frozen over and pigs aren't flying in the sky, Microsoft has just released 20,000 lines of device driver code to the Linux community.Company officials admitted the move was "a break from the ordinary" but were quick to note this is the first time Microsoft has released code directly to the Linux community. The code will be available to the Linux community and customers and is expected to enhance the performance of the Linux operating system when virtualized on Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V or Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V.
Sam Ramji, senior director of Platform Strategy in Microsoft's Server and Tools organization said in a statement, "Our initial goal in developing the code was to enable Linux to run as a virtual machine on top of Hyper-V, Microsoft's hypervisor and implementation of virtualization.
The Linux device drivers we are releasing are designed so Linux can run in enlightened mode, giving it the same optimized synthetic devices as a Windows virtual machine running on top of Hyper-V."
Due to the economy and consolidation, big enterprises are looking to standardize their virtualization platform, and according to Microsoft "the Linux device drivers will help customers who are running Linux to consolidate their Linux and Windows servers on a single virtualization platform".
Absolutely. I'm glad they decided to do this though. It's definitely a good move.
1 up for who cares what you think!
BTW - I use HyperV and I love it. Especially when combined with SCVMM.
I've started to really love this company again now.
I've started to really love this company again now.
Have you hated it before?
< snipped > it isn't a waste at all... Looks like you just don't understand anything about Linux/Microsoft/etc.
Last edited by Calum on 21 Jul 2009 - 10:40
VIM is more commonly used to manage large source products then Visual Studio (or probably arguably, any other IDE). VIM and Emacs are both very full featured IDEs with a steep learning curve but any developer worth their salt should pick them up in hours.
lol
Or should I say Ctrl+Meta+X Alt+Meta+****+lol ?
Or should I say Ctrl+Meta+X Alt+Meta+****+lol ?
I think even if that was a hotkey it would still be more efficient then diving in to 4 deep menus. If you're writing thousands of lines a code a month typing /'whatever youre searching for' is faster then CTRL+F waiting for it to load then diving through a 40mb intellisense database -- same goes for anything else VIM gives you with a funky keystroke.
Did you use vi to edit your post?
And well done to MS for doing !
Good one Microsoft, good one.
Before you try to be so cool and dismissive while presenting anecdotal evidence, no less...
Maybe you should try to remember waaay back to about last year.
http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/27/nvidia-...-crashes-in-20/
Seems that GP007 has a very valid point, backed up by Microsoft, no less, that nVidia's drivers aren't always stellar.
Thanks for playing.
Maybe you should try to remember waaay back to about last year.
http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/27/nvidia-...-crashes-in-20/
Seems that GP007 has a very valid point, backed up by Microsoft, no less, that nVidia's drivers aren't always stellar.
Thanks for playing.
And you think everyone runs Vista ?
Thanks for playing : your welcome !!
i thought it was 20,000 packages needed to run a single program in linux that had more then half with broken dependencies thats linux for ya.
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