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Every day, things seem to happen that I never thought I'd see, but one recent announcement was particularly striking if you've been around the FOSS community anytime in the last 20 years: Microsoft just proclaimed they are creating their own custom version of the Linux kernel.
Dear Reader,
Every day, things seem to happen that I never thought I'd see, but one recent announcement was particularly striking if you've been around the FOSS community anytime in the last 20 years: Microsoft just proclaimed they are creating their own custom version of the Linux kernel. A Linux kernel from Microsoft is big news if you remember the old times, when they used to say Linux was a "virus," and they used all their monopoly power in an attempt to squelch and obliterate the Linux menace.
As I write this column, the curious news is trickling out onto the high-tech blogs and news sites. Most of the stories paraphrase or quote from the original announcement in a blog at the Microsoft Azure website [1]. What they are really announcing is a new IoT system with three components:
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