Put down your coffee gently. Microsoft has today released a homegrown open-source operating system, based on Debian GNU/Linux, that runs on network switches.
[blink] [blink]The software is dubbed SONiC, aka Software for Open Networking in the Cloud. It's a toolkit of code and kernel patches to bend switch hardware to your will, so you can dictate how it works and what it can do, rather than relying on proprietary firmware from a traditional networking vendor.
Back in the day, we used to laugh at jokes about "MS Linux". The world is getting weird.
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The question remains, is it more secure? Or is anything these days?
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Well, *I* think that Linux is more secure. ;-)
But the point is that H8trz ain't h8tin' no more ...
Knowing what Microsoft has done to Cyanogenmod with it's plugins and additions, I'd stay the eff away from any distro that Microsoft has anything to do with.
Seriously.
Remember: Steve Ballmer said that "Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches." Why? The GPL. After all, Microsoft doesn't want its core software to be opened to ridicule - er, examination - by software engineers around the world.
Didn't Balmer or one of them say, "You don't want to be trapped in that open source stuff"?
Linux XP??? I'm going to have nightmares for a week.
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