[dba-Tech] Annoying

[Salakhetdinov Shamil]

> Do you have a link or two?

WSL 2 ? ( https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/wsl-2-is-now-available-in-windows-insiders/ )


>Monday, June 10, 2019 7:29 AM +03:00 from Jim Lawrence <accessd at shaw.ca>:
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>If Microsoft is moving Windows to a Linux core all I can say is, please hurry, I am drowning here and don't want to be treading-water anymore.
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>I had heard that, about Linux and Windows before but have not read about this improvement yet. Do you have a link or two? Until then I will keep the Champagne on ice. :-)
>
>Jim 
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>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues" < dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com >
>To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues" < dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com >
>Cc: "John R Bartow" < jbartow at winhaven.net >
>Sent: Sunday, June 9, 2019 8:05:23 PM
>Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Annoying
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>MS has been the pooch bad lately with their updates. Breaking all sorts of things.
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>IMO the new mgt is trying to move Windows to a Linux core (something akin to what Apple did to Mac OS with X). At this point I'd preaching to the choir if I said they'd be fools otherwise.
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: dba-Tech < dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com > On Behalf Of Peter Brawley
>Sent: Sunday, June 09, 2019 8:34 PM
>To:  dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com
>Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Annoying
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>On 6/9/2019 10:56, Jim Lawrence wrote:
>> Hi All:
>>
>> A few days ago, I was testing the Windows 10 partition, on my new laptop and noticed something strange.
>>
>> I had, back in December, installed both the SSH client and SSH server on the Windows section of the device so it could safely access and be accessed from any location. The SSH client is still working but suddenly the SSH server is not functioning. It was very difficult to validate this situation as many previous running Power Shell commands, also stopped working.
>>
>> Working for a solution, over a couple of evenings was going nowhere 
>> until I read an article on Microsoft's new direction. It seems that 
>> because the new Windows 10 had become such a versatile system people 
>> were not buying their servers. To supposedly fix that problem a large 
>> series of services, through the regular cycle of updates of the 
>> Windows 10 platform, are being removed. Microsoft has been very 
>> closed-lipped about this activity but fortunately, unofficial blogs 
>> have been logging the depreciation of your desktop machine. :-(
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>Wow. What else are they removing?
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>I disabled Windows Update service at v10.0.14393 (1607), I guess this'll be my last Windows installation.
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>>
>> The RDP remote connectivity is not and never will be an adequate 
>> solution as it is security nightmare (...or any of the numerous remote 
>> takeover products that depend on that technology.)
>>
>> Aside: What scum. So much for MS openness. At least we have Linux, where their OS can drive the IoT (Internet of Things) devices, all the way up to the world's largest supercomputers and every computer system in between...one stop shopping. Learn once and run everywhere.
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>Yep, "scum" is apt.
>
>PB
>>
>> Jim
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