Interesting times, these. I have a long and unhappy history with Windows. I stopped using Windows in 1999, and ran nothing but Linux on both my desktop and portable computing devices for over 10 years. In the last 3 years I've become pretty damn good at Windows server. My reintroduction happened out of necessity: We needed more depth in Windows Server and Exchange, and everyone else ducked faster than me. I'm still a Linux nerd at heart, we still run all of our critical infrastructure on various flavors of Linux/BSD and I'm mashing this email out from my Android phone. However, over those 3 years, I've found myself in the interesting position of feeling something approaching a grudging respect for Windows 2012, and (putting my rage at the privacy issues aside for a moment) even Windows 10. Powershell is just as opaque and unhelpful, if not even more so, than the bash command line. For the first time in nearly 20 years, I found myself adrift at a command line that I needed to learn from scratch. Remember those first forays into bash? Remember whomever your guide was telling to 'man man' (and then chuckling gleefully at your frustration)? I was like a noob-born again! Learning new stuff is fun, and (for me, at least) is what gets my sorry carcass hauled into a vertical position each day. Powershell is a pain in the ass, but it's aptly named: it can do a LOT. It takes a fair amount of blundering around to get to a point that you can get it to do a damn thing for you. Blundering = learning, and learning is awesome. I've watched the new CEO of Microsoft announce support for running SQL server on Linux, and now native Bash support. As a network administrator managing diverse environments, I'm honestly excited by the prospect of not having to install a full Cygwin stack just so I can run SSH. I like Cygwin, but it's a lot of overhead when all I really need is a secure tunnel to another server. I still miss Konsole, a network admin's best friend and by far the best muti-window terminal session manager ever, but I do feel compelled to give a little credit where it's due :) Alright, back to lurking for me, at least for now. Rubin <!-- originalMessage --><div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: Joe Golden <[email protected]> </div><div>Date: 3/30/2016 8:04 PM (GMT-05:00) </div><div>To: [email protected] </div><div>Subject: Re: Bashists Unite!! The Empire shall Embrace, extend, and exterminate" </div><div> </div>Is this scary?
Apple goes OS X: *nix wins, the world gets more robust systems. Bash on Windows: bash scripts that run smoothly on windows, big win for consistency and sanity I'd say. All that said, it would make me feel dirty. I steer far clear of Windows and generally feel technically pure and wholesome. That does make me a bit unqualified to speak about anything Windows! "Bash on Windows" is a bit contradictory. There's definitely something amiss. I think we should see it as Windows admitting they need something better. Peace, Love and Better Technology On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 05:58:37PM -0400, Paul Flint wrote: >Greetings, > >This is really scary... > >I own the web site Visualbash.org... > >But I was only joking!!!! > >http://www.zdnet.com/article/heres-how-microsoft-will-support-bash-on-windows-10/ > > > >Regards, > >Flint > >On Wed, 30 Mar 2016, JOHN MILLER wrote: > >>Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2016 14:46:12 -0400 >>From: MILLER >>To: Paul Flint <[email protected]> >>Subject: ZDNet: Here's how Microsoft will support Bash on Windows 10 >> >>If you can't beat 'em, join 'em: >>Here's how Microsoft will support Bash on Windows 10 >>ZDNet >> >>Microsoft is building support for the Linux Bash utilities into >>Windows 10 with a little help from Canonical. Here's what's >>happening under the covers to enable this. Read the full story >> >> >>Shared from Apple News >> >> >> >>Regards: >> > >Kindest Regards, > >☮ Paul Flint >(802) 479-2360 Home >(802) 595-9365 Cell > >/************************************ >Based upon email reliability concerns, >please send an acknowledgement in response to this note. > >Paul Flint >17 Averill Street >Barre, VT >05641 -- Joe Golden /_\ www.Triangul.us /_\ Coding, Drupalism, Open Sourcery
