PowerShell is now open source
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https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/powershell-is-open-sourced-and-is-available-on-linux/
So far its available on Ubuntu, CentOS and Red Hat and Mac OS X.
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First comment on that page:
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This will be interesting to see and play with.
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I wouldn't say interesting so much as, what's taken them so long to do it?
It's a management code base for the purposes of maintaining servers, this should've been OS'd at it's inception.
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@DustinB3403 said in PowerShell is now open source:
I wouldn't say interesting so much as, what's taken them so long to do it?
It's a management code base for the purposes of maintaining servers, this should've been OS'd at it's inception.
But to be honest, PowerShell is a very mighty system. Every (good) cmdlet will give you some object-oriented output which can be piped to another cmdlet. (Ba)sh on the other hand is working with plain stdin/stdout/stderr, so basically strings. For example, there's no need for awk in PowerShell at all.
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So, would this make things a tad easier for a Windows-centric Admin, to manage a Linux machine?
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@Veet said in PowerShell is now open source:
So, would this make things a tad easier for a Windows-centric Admin, to manage a Linux machine?
More the other way around, for now. Linux people will have more access to Windows-access tools. But eventually, I'm sure PS will become fully functional on Linux making that easier, too.
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This is part of a pattern. First you had the integration of BASH with Windows, then the porting of OpenSSH to Windows, and now Powershell for Linux. Microsoft has realized that there is zero money to be made in client sales, and is trying to become as platform agnostic as possible.
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@Kelly said in PowerShell is now open source:
This is part of a pattern. First you had the integration of BASH with Windows, then the porting of OpenSSH to Windows, and now Powershell for Linux. Microsoft has realized that there is zero money to be made in client sales, and is trying to become as platform agnostic as possible.
It's the only smart thing for them to do.
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This qualifies as pretty much epic. And they committed to OpenSSH integration down the road. That's going to be amazing. They have OpenSSH working now, but it isn't a native PS transport yet. That's the big deal in the future.
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And here it is, already installed on Ubuntu 16.04...
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Now let me see you do some Windows management stuff with it, lol.
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@dafyre said in PowerShell is now open source:
Now let me see you do some Windows management stuff with it, lol.
Doesn't connect yet, have to wait on the OpenSSH integration.
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@alex.olynyk which OS do you have it on?
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@scottalanmiller CentOS7
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Also installed Nextcloud 10 RC1 on CentOS VM. Working well.
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I'm still excited about PowerShell for Linux. Once they get most of the windows modules ported, or at least to where we can manage a Windows system with it, this will be super awesome.
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@dafyre said in PowerShell is now open source:
I'm still excited about PowerShell for Linux. Once they get most of the windows modules ported, or at least to where we can manage a Windows system with it, this will be super awesome.
Only thing needed is the OpenSSH integration, most likely, and we will be good to go.
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Being able to automate tasks will be much easier with OpenSSH. PS-Remoting is nice but requires some kind of blood sacrifice to get working reliably over different networks.
