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2049 points bpierre | 1 comments | 30 Mar 16 16:35 UTC | HN request time: 0.212s | source
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matt_wulfeck ◴[30 Mar 16 17:35 UTC] No.11391211[source]▶
microsoft is leveraging FOSS Linux to get Mac users. I think it's a real smart move.

The author points to using grep and Xargs and some other tools to quickly update a package. That's the key here. These bash/Linux utilities are productivy boosters for all the Linux and Mac/bsd people out there. I can't imagine living without them and they're necessary for any system I develop on (which is currently a Mac).

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1. tetraodonpuffer ◴[30 Mar 16 18:02 UTC] No.11391515[source]▶
this, so many people that develop OSS do so on mac laptops because it's so easy to get the toolchain working, with real linux binaries in windows it's making the value proposition of the surface book a lot stronger for developers.