Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 12th Sep 2007 21:41 UTC
Novell and Ximian Microsoft and Novell on Sept. 12 will open their 2500-square-foot interoperability lab in Cambridge, Mass., where technical experts from both companies will collaborate on technologies to help Windows Server and SUSE Linux Enterprise work well together. The first priority for the team is to ensure interoperability between virtualization technologies.
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RE: That Microsoft Ad...
by n4cer on Thu 13th Sep 2007 08:11 UTC in reply to "That Microsoft Ad..."
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All I can say is wtf after watching it. In trying to make Linux look bad, they expanded "killall konqueror" to:
ps xu | grep konqueror | grep -v grep | awk '{ print $2 }' |xargs kill -9
in order to make bash and linux look hard to use. This is a company that is committed to interoperability when they have a video like that featured on their "Compare" homepage? Right. Lets Get the Facts.


I think it's just a bad demo possibly due to the presenter's lack of familliarity with either shell. Even the Powershell examples weren't the most succinct methods of accomplishing the given tasks. For example "spps -n iexplore" could've been used to kill all instances of IE (spps is an alias for stop-process, as is kill), and the Computer Browser service could've been disabled with "set-service browser -s disabled".

In any case, he should've tried to ensure parity for the chosen methods, such as using "gps iexplore | spps" in comparison to the kill method he used.

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