Posted on 08/18/2016 9:09:01 AM PDT by dayglored
Microsoft has published PowerShell, its scripting and automation platform, as open source under the permissive MIT licence, as well as porting it to Linux and Mac, with an alpha build now available on GitHub.
PowerShell is built on Microsoft's .NET platform, and one of the enabling pieces here is .NET Core, the refactored fork of .NET which runs cross-platform. PowerShell "Core" has already turned up on Nano Server, the barebones edition of Windows Server 2016, and the newly announced release will run on .NET Core on Mac and Linux.
The initial Linux support is for Ubuntu, CentOS and RedHat. "Others will follow," said Jeffrey Snover, Technical Fellow and creator of PowerShell, speaking to The Reg. "And we’re open-sourcing it. That’s the source code for PowerShell Windows, which is the version that runs on the full CLR, as well as the PowerShell Core."
Another key announcement is that OpenSSH – for remote login using the SSH protocol – will be integrated into PowerShell. "We’re embedding it into the heart of PowerShell," said Snover. "We’re layering the PowerShell remoting protocol over OpenSSH, as a native transport. Customers will be able to choose the existing WinRM protocol or OpenSSH."
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I use PowerShell for certain tasks, but only because I have to... it’s a very strange language.
About time
This exposes again the huge difference between Microsoft and Apple.
Microsoft will invest heavily in integration while Apple circles the wagons in propriety. In the few cases when Apple opens up it is late and smallball.
From the article “1 in 3 VM’s in Azure is Linux.”
If you can’t beat’em...
The entire technology marketplace is very rapidly commoditizing and completely collapsing into the cloud. The technology market I have worked in for over 30 years had 5 primary competitors just over 3 years ago. Today, we have over 200 competitors. All cloud based. All very low priced.
This is just Microsoft trying to hijack POSIX. Interesting, but useless to the larger MacOS/UNIX/Linux community that already has all the tools.
Microsoft is desperately trying to become significant in the OS space again.
The first thing I do with Windows laptop is install Cygwin.
I can hardly remember how to navigate the convoluted Microsoft OSs, and spend all my time on MacOS or ABW (Anything But Windows).
Power Shell......
For when you need to run something quickly by loading in a interpreter that takes forever to load...
[ The first thing I do with Windows laptop is install Cygwin. ]
Cygwin is awesome! You can do all sorts of neat things with it that would take twice as long with powershell...
Let me translate into FREEPER speak: This is HUGH. The implications of this will be SERIEUS.
Hugh mean series, don’t hugh?
BTTT ... real men use bash !
No, real men use Ed. Ed is the standard, after all.
:)
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You don't have a clue what you are talking about. Apple has been publishing Open Source software for years. For example: CUPS, the printing system used for both OS X and Linux, WEBKIT, which is used for many web browsers. Both open source, both owned by Apple. HealthKit, open source. Apple owned. Bonjour, Open Source, Apple developed, Apple owned.
Open at the source. Open Source software is at the heart of Apple platforms and developer tools, and Apple continues to both lead and make significant contributions to many Open Source projects. Major components of Mac OS X, including the UNIX core, are made available under Apple’s Open Source license, allowing developers and students to view source code, learn from it and submit suggestions and modifications. In addition, Apple uses software created by the Open Source community, such as the HTML rendering engine for Safari, and returns its enhancements to the community.Apple believes that using Open Source methodology makes Mac OS X a more robust, secure operating system, as its core components have been subjected to the crucible of peer review for decades. Any problems found with this software can be immediately identified and fixed by Apple and the Open Source community.
Learn more about Open Source development at href="http://developer.apple.com/opensource/
Source, including a list of over 100 Apple Open Source Programs
PowerShell is pretty ugly, I only use it when I have to. I much prefer something like Python—a far better language.
It’s hard not to see this as a counterpoint to the bash shell coming to Windows right about now (as part of the anniversary upgrade rolling out to Windows Update piecemeal).
The Windows equivalent to POSIX was MS-DOS.
Before Windows 95, Windows was a headless shell, run entirely from the command line.
Its largely been deprecated. The command line is still present in all versions of Windows.
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