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Microsoft starts supporting, er, Linux (Register)

Microsoft starts supporting, er, Linux (Register)

Posted Apr 4, 2006 18:36 UTC (Tue) by tzafrir (subscriber, #11501)
In reply to: Microsoft starts supporting, er, Linux (Register) by dw
Parent article: Microsoft starts supporting, er, Linux (Register)

Windows has a very poor software distribution mechanism to begin with.

A strict white-list of checksums will mean you can't easily deploy tools. Not to mention you can run just about anything without actually executing it (bash, perl, python, ld-linux, you name it).

And then there are "manual" scripts of human engineering.


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