Windows Server 2019 Goes Into Preview With WSL, Better Kubernetes Support

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Windows Server 2019 Goes Into Preview With WSL, Better Kubernetes Support

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, the eventual Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, and other 2018 Linux distributions will now be running up against Microsoft Windows Server 2019 that the company plans to release in the second half of the year but is available today in preview form...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Windows-Server-2019-Preview

[tildearrow]

Typo:

support for OpenSSHl, Curl, Tar, and other common Unix/Linux commands.

[bvbfan]

There is no miserable software than M$' one

[GraysonPeddie]

I don't see a reason why I'd want to switch to Windows Server 2016 except to have a desktop experience for configuring a server with a domain controller through a graphical user interface, including DHCP server.

Nah... Linux with OpenStack through conjure-up is fine for me.

[edwaleni]

OK, so you can run Mono (.NET), Wine ("some" Apps), NDISwrapper for drivers but not Windows services in Ubuntu Server (at least not with out KVM). So do we need a full Windows Services Layer for Linux? I am being somewhat sarcastic here, but if we can grow oranges on apple trees now (WSL), maybe the reverse is possible? (but not desirable).