https://www.geeksmint.com/microsoft-reportedly-on-the-verge-of-open-sourcing-powershell-for-linux-and-os-x/ GeeksMint: Computers, How-to's, Internet, Tips and Tricks Wed, 17 Aug 2016 04:36:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://www.geeksmint.com/microsoft-reportedly-on-the-verge-of-open-sourcing-powershell-for-linux-and-os-x/#comment-2511 Wed, 17 Aug 2016 04:36:00 +0000 https://www.geeksmint.com/?p=1596#comment-2511 “There is no official word from the Redmond-based company confirming whether PowerShell
will become an open-source platform or not but it has rightly created a
huge excitement within the Free and open-source community.”
Whoa, back the truck up! Click bait alert!
Just Who in the FOSS community is ‘hugely excited’ about Powershell and Why?

]]> https://www.geeksmint.com/microsoft-reportedly-on-the-verge-of-open-sourcing-powershell-for-linux-and-os-x/#comment-2497 Tue, 02 Aug 2016 16:52:00 +0000 https://www.geeksmint.com/?p=1596#comment-2497 Real question : Why ?
What can PowerShell do on Linux that Linux can’t do already ?
Is it just so that existing PowerShell scripts can be used on Linux/OSX ?
Is it meant to be a “translation” between Bash, zsh, etc. ?

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