A Microsoft revealed on Twitter that the company plans to port its Sysinternals tools to Linux. This announcement comes after another tweet from Microsoft engineer David Fowler, who said that the ProcDump application has already been ported to Linux.
Mario Hewardt, the principal program manager for Microsoft's Azure Diagnostic, also posted a tweet saying that they are working on porting ProcMon, which is part of the Sysinternals tools and monitors file system activities to the Windows.
Microsoft also plans to make the Sysinternals package available for Linux users in the near future. For those who are not familiar with Sysinternals, it is a set of debugging tools used on Windows and developed since 1996 by a company called Winternals.
Microsoft acquired Wininternals in 2006 and continued the development of debugging tools. The tools are available on the Technet website and are used to remove bugs from memory, the CPU, the file system, the registry, network settings, etc.
The tools are actively used by many security researchers to search for malicious software on a Windows system.
Microsoft's initiative to move the Sysinternals debugging tools to Linux, indicates that Linux is one of the most preferred operating systems for running Azure virtual machines.
