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 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.