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SONiC - a new Debian fork

10-03-2016 12:22PM

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croo

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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.

It seems MS' new management have decided to take some of the benefits of Open Source. The full article was on theRegister here

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