Microsoft Makes An Interesting Improvement To Kernel Modules With Linux 6.13 (www.phoronix.com)
from petsoi@discuss.tchncs.de to linux@lemmy.ml on 27 Nov 15:55
https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/25874794

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marius@feddit.org on 27 Nov 16:29 next collapse

I know some of these words

thingsiplay@beehaw.org on 27 Nov 16:52 next collapse

Microsoft doing Microsoft things, such as working on the Linux Kernel.

astro_ray@piefed.social on 27 Nov 17:48 next collapse

"Microsoft ❤️ Linux"

bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de on 27 Nov 19:25 next collapse

If I recall correctly there were years when Microsoft was a top contributor to the kernel. Long before Azure. I think it was mostly for Microsoft hardware like joysticks and mice.

thingsiplay@beehaw.org on 27 Nov 19:41 collapse

It might be because they were developing Azure. And they also include Linux distributions in Windows too, so it makes sense for Microsoft to work on it. Microsoft is one of the few top paying Platinum members in the Linux Foundation: www.linuxfoundation.org/about/members

lnxtx@feddit.nl on 27 Nov 23:47 collapse

They are working on a secret plan, replace the NT kernel by Linux one.
They will add an extra layer between Windows userland and Linux kernel. ~/s~

umbrella@lemmy.ml on 28 Nov 01:53 collapse

i tought this was gonna be boring, barely beneficial, wsl enablement but they are working on memory allocation. why?

ashley@lemmy.ca on 28 Nov 06:21 next collapse

Their entire cloud infrastructure runs on Linux

caseyweederman@lemmy.ca on 28 Nov 18:13 collapse

wsl is still on 5.15, isn’t it?