Star Double-Take: Microsoft Contributes Drivers to Linux Community
Linked by Jordan Spencer Cunningham on Mon 20th Jul 2009 18:05 UTC
Microsoft It all started with some free lunch four years ago, and then it morphed into a free patch. Along came Moonlight and some other developments, and now Microsoft has donated 20,000 lines of driver code to be included in the Linux tree. Yes-- Microsoft contributed drivers to the Linux community.
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Xen domU kernel
by rajj on Mon 20th Jul 2009 22:52 UTC
rajj
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2005-07-06

What would actually be impressive would be a Xen domU kernel even if it weren't OSS.

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RE: Xen domU kernel
by Mark Williamson on Tue 21st Jul 2009 01:50 in reply to "Xen domU kernel"
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2005-07-06

Xen / some derivatives of it do have some support for Microsoft's *own* paravirt API so that MS code can get paravirt speedups when running on Xen.

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