[dayglored]

Holy cow. This is YUUUUGE!!

[dayglored]

PowerShell - open sourced, for Linux and OS X -- WOW! ... PING!

You can find all the Windows Ping list threads with FR search: just search on keyword "windowspinglist".

[Mannaggia l'America]

I use PowerShell for certain tasks, but only because I have to... it’s a very strange language.

[zeugma]

We’re layering the PowerShell remoting protocol over OpenSSH, as a native transport

About time

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

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.

[IamConservative]

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.

[ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton]

Let me translate into FREEPER speak: This is HUGH. The implications of this will be SERIEUS.

[SecondAmendment]

BTTT ... real men use bash !

[Swordmaker]

Microsoft is joining open source software. . . and has released a cross platform powerful PowerShell OS X's UNIX™ and various flavors of Linux. — PING!

Microsoft Publishes Open Source Software
for OS X's UNIX™ and Linux
Ping!

The latest Apple/Mac/iOS Pings can be found by searching Keyword "ApplePingList" on FreeRepublic's Search.

If you want on or off the Mac Ping List, Freepmail me

[The Toad]

PowerShell is pretty ugly, I only use it when I have to. I much prefer something like Python—a far better language.

[ReignOfError]

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).