MS contributing to Linux

[Derek Broughton]

Smoot Carl-Mitchell wrote:

> On Tue, 2009-07-21 at 10:44 -0500, Cybe R. Wizard wrote:
>> On Tue, 21 Jul 2009 08:15:35 -0700
>> Smoot Carl-Mitchell <smoot at tic.com> wrote:
>> 
>> > This is an MS move to compete with VMware. I am not sure why you want
>> > to run Linux under Windows, but there are a lot of Windows shops out
>> > there that may see some benefits.
>> 
>> And they'll curse Linux when it crashes and us for telling them Linux
>> is more stable.
> 
> Windows 2008 server is pretty stable.  It is a far cry from XP or Vista.

Vista and XP are pretty stable - except in a VM...

> I do not know how stable it is as a virtual hosting server, though.

I run 4 different VirtualBox VMs.  Most of them run Linux, but one runs XP.  
The XP one can fairly routinely crash the Linux host (the ONLY thing I've 
ever found that can), so it's a two-way street.

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derek