The sysinternals guys (Mark Russinovich and Bryce Cogswell) and code, at least most of it, existed independently of microsoft for many years. It was great. So great MS bought it and brought it and them inside. Russinovich is CTO of Azure now or something. So sysinternals is now random MS hires but I like to think it's still not really a microsoft product, just owned and mantained by them.
I was a windows user till XP came out and I've missed sysinternals tools. I'm going to enjoy this on my newer kernel machines. Seems to require some pretty cutting edge features.
Tangent: Mark Russinovich (Jun 20, 2025): “I had the thrill of a lifetime, hosting dinner for Bill Gates, Linus Torvalds and David Cutler. Linus had never met Bill, and Dave had never met Linus.“
It was truly great for Windows, no doubt about that.
Now, is it great for Linux? Absolutely not. These tools existed to vaguely resemble the capabilities we have had on *nix for decades and I'm not sure what kind of value could they bring back to Linux... like, really, what? A different, Microsoft-style optics to look at processes?
superkuh|6 months ago
I was a windows user till XP came out and I've missed sysinternals tools. I'm going to enjoy this on my newer kernel machines. Seems to require some pretty cutting edge features.
47282847|6 months ago
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/markrussinovich_i-had-the-thr...
egorfine|6 months ago
Now, is it great for Linux? Absolutely not. These tools existed to vaguely resemble the capabilities we have had on *nix for decades and I'm not sure what kind of value could they bring back to Linux... like, really, what? A different, Microsoft-style optics to look at processes?
K2h|6 months ago