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Technology Short Take 97

Scott Lowe

If you don’t know how that image was built, this is no different than downloading a compiled executable from the Internet and running it. Tirumarai Selvan has a comparison. Operating Systems/Applications. Flatcar Linux is a “friendly fork” of Container Linux (of CoreOS).

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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on the business of Windows

The Verge

POSIX, which is a set of operating system standards. WSL, which is the part of Windows that lets you run Linux. In 2019, I think you had said to Wired , “The operating system is no longer the most important layer for us. ” That’s in comparison to the very controversial 30 percent that Apple charges.

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Apple stumbled into a war with the gaming industry, and the future of iOS is at stake

The Verge

As a defense, it had a prepared lawsuit and a full-blown social media campaign ready to allege that Apple is committing antitrust violations with regard to its operation of the App Store and the rules and payment mechanisms that underpin it. But the comparison to Netflix or Spotify is beside the point.

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Review: The real star feature of Valve’s Steam Deck is its price tag

GeekWire

announced the Deck in July as its latest foray into both hardware and its support of gaming on the Linux operating system. To get games on your Deck, you download them wirelessly from your library on the Steam storefront. For comparison’s sake. Valve Software, headquartered in Bellevue, Wash.,

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