Microsoft released the Linux version of Sysinternals

Over the past few years, Microsoft has become more and more interested in Linux, stepping into the world that was once considered a territory that never took Microsoft. Windows Subsystem for Linux, which helps developers run Linux on Windows 10, is evidence that they want to bring two ecosystems closer together. Their next step is to release the Linux version of Sysinternals.

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The inclusion of ProcDump on Linux is still in development but developers can try this package on GitHub.

'ProcDump is the Linux version of the classic ProcDump tool located in the Sysinternals suite for Windows. ProcDump makes it easy for Linux developers to create the core dump of the application ', the development team said on GitHub.

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ProcDump application management tool will be available on Linux

To run ProcDump on Linux, you need to use minimal Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Mageia 6, Fedora 26 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux / CentOS 7, gdb 7.6.1 and zlib. Microsoft said it is testing support on other distributions and developers should also submit requests if needed.

The developer at Microsoft Mario Hewadt also confirmed on Twitter that Sysinternals is about to be available on Linux but the release time has not yet been announced. Microsoft also hopes developers say what they want to put on Linux.

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