1.Penguin Landscape

Eric S. Raymond, one of open-source's founding fathers, thinks we're nearing the last phase of the desktop wars. The winner? Windows… running on Linux. "Google chose to save money and increase security by using Linux as the basis for Chrome OS. This worked out really well for Google. It can for Microsoft with -- let's take a blast from the past -- and call it Lindows as well."

 

A few days ago, Eric S. Raymond (ESR), developer and writer, suggested that we're nearing the last phase of the desktop wars. The winner? Windows… running on Linux. 

He's on to something. I've long thought that Microsoft was considering migrating the Windows interface to running on the Linux kernel. Why?

Raymond argues that "WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) allows unmodified Linux binaries to run under Windows 10. No emulation, no shim layer, they just load and go." Indeed, you can run standard Linux programs now on WSL2 without any trouble.