Forums before death by AOL, social media and spammers... "We can't have nice things"
|    alt.os.linux.ubuntu    |    I preferred Xubuntu, seemed a bit faster    |    134,474 messages    |
[   << oldest   |   < older   |   list   |   newer >   |   newest >>   ]
|    Message 132,681 of 134,474    |
|    Mr. Man-wai Chang to Sativa GNutella    |
|    Re: Should Microsoft Acquire Canonical U    |
|    07 Aug 22 18:28:50    |
      From: toylet.toylet@gmail.com              On 6/8/2022 2:18 am, Sativa GNutella wrote:       > Sure, Microsoft could easily create their own Linux distribution;       > similarly to what Amazon has done. However, Ubuntu (made by       > Canonical) is already the most used Linux distribution within       > Microsoft Azure. Plus, Microsoft has had some close integration       > in the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) for Windows 10 where       > even though other Linux distros are supported, it?s clear that       > Ubuntu is the preferred distribution to use with WSL. Due to this       > popularity of Ubuntu Linux on the Microsoft Azure cloud platform,       > and the tight integration using WSL with Windows 10; it really       > seems to make perfect sense that if Microsoft wanted their own       > Linux distribution for the Azure cloud and for Windows 10,       > Microsoft would choose to continue this relationship to the next       > level by acquiring the Canonical (the company that makes the       > Ubuntu Linux distribution.)              Isn't SCO Unix a dead end? :)              And you have to consider the differences between frontend and backends.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
[   << oldest   |   < older   |   list   |   newer >   |   newest >>   ]
(c) 1994, bbs@darkrealms.ca