Re: Re: Linux on EFI systems
By: Dreamer to Nightfox on Thu Apr 24 2014 11:33:00
Ni>> I figured that was due to Microsoft's influence.. Naturally they
Ni>> wouldn't want to let people run other operating systems, lest they
Ni>> lose customers to Linux or another OS.
Dr> That was their thinking at the time, I'm sure. I don't think they
Dr> intended to not let people run a competing OS, but they were too
Dr> focused on supporting their own legacy programs going into the future,
Dr> and decided not to look at anything else.
Dr> I think with Hyper-V, they're demonstrating that they can see how much
Dr> an advantage it is to support more than just their own products. By
Dr> supporting running other OS's (and not just on an enterprise level),
Dr> people don't have to make a choice between the two, and you end up
Dr> with more systems running *your* OS than you would otherwise have.
That's true.. We use Hyper-V at work to manage several virtual machines, some
with Windows and some with Linux. It seems to work fairly well.. Supporting
competing operating systems can be a fine line to walk, though - IBM did that
with OS/2, allowing it to run Windows software alongside OS/2 software. Since
Windows was gaining popularity so fast though, many software developers decided
to just make Windows versions of their software and not support OS/2. I
suppose virtualization software like Hyper-V is a little different, but still
similar in some ways.
Nightfox
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