A Tale of Penguins: Microsoft’s Approach to Linux & Open Source
summary
Linux kernel grows from ~5 MB to ~730 MB and config options from ~100 to ~16,000, and Microsoft reports concrete shifts: upstreamed Hyper‑V drivers, hires kernel engineers (e.g. Matthew Wilcox), runs a few‑hundred‑node OpenStack CI, helps FreeBSD governance, and releases developer tools like Visual Studio Code. Company open‑sources PowerShell on GitHub (MIT, ~50k package downloads), ships SQL Server on Linux in preview, and runs one‑third Azure VMs on Linux to make it a first‑class cloud citizen.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction
- 9:03Windows and Linux
- 11:10Microsofts approach
- 11:59Linux investments
- 13:06Linux vs Windows
- 13:51Ecosystem
- 14:36Examples
- 16:05Conclusion
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