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Ubuntu on Windows

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2049 points bpierre | 7 comments | 30 Mar 16 16:35 UTC | HN request time: 2.054s | source | bottom
1. partycoder ◴[31 Mar 16 08:03 UTC] No.11395663[source]▶
While I encourage people to embrace open source tools and libraries as much as possible, I also would like to issue a word of caution on feeling too comfortable targeting a proprietary environment such as Windows.

Some people have compared Mac OS X and Windows because of their proprietary nature, but one key difference is that you don't run Mac OS X as a server operating system or on the cloud. While many people develop on Mac OS X, they might still build and deploy to a Linux server.

For Windows to support the GNU/Linux userland is to finally empower Windows as a competitive platform for the cloud. Windows has suddenly became a viable deployment target for a wide spectrum of software that prior to this could not target Windows.

I am not looking forward for a lower market share of Linux (or BSD, Solaris derivatives, to be fair) on servers or on the cloud.

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2. creshal ◴[31 Mar 16 08:11 UTC] No.11395686[source]▶
And people should also take a long look at Silverlight, XNA, and all the other technologies Microsoft dropped on a whim and left developers relying on them to hang dry; before they decide to bet on Microsoft SFU 4.0 "This Time For Reals" Edition.
3. nekkoru ◴[31 Mar 16 08:30 UTC] No.11395763[source]▶
(...)one key difference is that you don't run Mac OS X as a server operating system or on the cloud.

http://www.apple.com/osx/server/

It's actually a pretty decent server environment.

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4. partycoder ◴[31 Mar 16 08:32 UTC] No.11395771[source]▶
That's a valid point, but you cannot elastically provision 100 OS X servers machines on demand in the cloud.
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5. nekkoru ◴[31 Mar 16 08:34 UTC] No.11395778{3}[source]▶
I don't think anyone has tried it, but is there a reason why it couldn't be done?
6. WatchDog ◴[31 Mar 16 09:05 UTC] No.11395873[source]▶
Am I missing something or does this only run on apple hardware, yet apple don't make any server hardware?
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7. creshal ◴[31 Mar 16 14:36 UTC] No.11397462{3}[source]▶
They used to; nowadays you're apparently supposed to rackmount Mac Pros:

http://www.sonnettech.com/product/rackmacpro.html