This the FIRST ENGLISH episode of the “Sliding Windows”, starring Bruce Payette. Bruce is best known as the go-to-guy of the Windows Powershell team and guru of almost any programming language (if I may quote Jeffrey Snover here).
We run through all the history of Unix oriented software in Microsoft’s ecosystem. Starting with OpenNT, later renamed to Interix, to SFU (Services for Unix) and SUA (Subsystem for Unix based applications) until we finally touch the latest chapter of the “X files”: the WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux)
The interview was recorded in Hannover, 22th April 2016.
Show notes:
- Stephen Walli: Running Linux Apps on Windows (and other stupid human tricks) READING TIP!
- MKS Inc. (Wikipedia)
- Federal Information Processing Standards (Wikipedia)
- The Open Group: FIPS 151-2 Testing Policy
- Microsoft Acquires Softway Systems To Strengthen Future Customer Interoperability Solutions (1999-09-17)
- BSD 4.4 Lite (Wikipedia)
- UNIX/The Open Group (Wikipedia)
- The Open Group: (Unix) History and Timeline
- Fork-exec
- SCO/Linux controversies (Wikipedia)
- Single UNIX Specification (Wikipedia)
- Architecture Neutral Distribution Format (Wikipedia)
- Interix (Wikipedia)
- Gaurav Seth: The x64 Vs AMD64 Vs EM64T Vs Itanium Riddle – What is what?
- Matthew Kerner: A History of Modern 64-bit Computing (PDF)
- The Cygwin project
- Waterloo (Ontario, CA) => Seattle (Washington, USA) (Bing Maps)
- Gottfried Leibniz: Monadology
- Services for Unix
- Charlie Russel: InterOp Windows Services For UNIX
- Subsystem for UNIX-based Applications Overview
- Alistair Christie: UNIX on Windows (Microsoft’s little secret)
- Thorsten Butz: “Windows-Linux Kooperation” (PDF)
- Sun Solaris (Wikipedia)
- Daryl Wray (LinkedIn)
- Andrew S. Tanenbaum (Wikipedia)
- Linus Torvalds (Wikipedia)
- Torvalds-Tannenbaum depate (Wikipedia)
- Darwin (Operating System) (Wikipedia)
- Windows Subsystem for Linux: Architectural Overview (Channel 9, Video)
References
- Bruce Payette: Windows Powershell in action
- Linux Torvalds: Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary
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