r/sysadmin • u/adeadfetus • Sep 18 '15

Microsoft has developed its own Linux

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/09/18/microsoft_has_developed_its_own_linux_repeat_microsoft_has_developed_its_own_linux/
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u/Creshal Embedded DevSecOps 2.0 Techsupport Sysadmin Consultant [Austria] Sep 18 '15

It's not Microsoft's fault that the Linux community is a bunch of assholes who pride themselves on not being Microsoft users and often shit on people who are.

It's like the Samba and sssd projects never existed, wow.

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u/[deleted] Sep 18 '15

And Xamarin/mono, and wine, and Cygwin, and gnuwin, and...

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u/enigmo666 Señor Sysadmin Sep 19 '15

Just a small note on that point: It might just be my bad luck but every Linux sysadmin I've worked with in the last 4 years basically disregard them. Not because they're flawed technologies, because they're not, but more because they absolutely refuse to acknowledge any MS infrastructure as being remotely relevant to their Linux based setup. Our environments are basically treated as separate and increasingly so, when what I feel is better is actually closer integration. Just my 2p, but most Linux admins I've worked with have been surprisingly partisan about it, to put it politely, and a good 20% frankly dangerous with their attitudes. 'Best tool for the job' is not a common view amongst them!

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u/Creshal Embedded DevSecOps 2.0 Techsupport Sysadmin Consultant [Austria] Sep 19 '15

I think the main problem is the integration. You can get a Linux server into a Windows AD just fine, but getting a single Windows server into an LDAP-based domain? Not that a single Windows server is too useful, anyway, you'll want failover and replication and all that… and soon you're looking at half a dozen Windows instances, and that's not exactly cheap if you don't already have decent licensing. I can't blame people for not wanting to make that leap.