https://gamesbymason.com/blog/2026/microsoft/
Prediction: Microsoft Is Going To Do The Funniest Thing Imaginable this guy called it loooong back
Microsoft surprises with its first server Linux distribution: Azure Linux 4.0
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Re: Microsoft surprises with its first server Linux distribution: Azure Linux 4.0
#12I'm surprised that people consider this a victory. It just shows how much open source became irrelevant to users' freedom.
Re: Microsoft surprises with its first server Linux distribution: Azure Linux 4.0
#13It finally happened, 23 years later! /s https://web.archive.org/web/20251108032058/https://mslinux.o...
Heh.
> MS Linux is released under the provisions of the Gates Private License, which means you can freely use this Software on a single machine without warranty after having paid the purchase price and annual renewal fees.
Re: Microsoft surprises with its first server Linux distribution: Azure Linux 4.0
#14I don’t really follow what they mean by no package manager. If you’re developing, won’t you need JavaScript or python or elixir or rust or go? This whole thing just run containers and your container still has to run some other distribution?
Re: Microsoft surprises with its first server Linux distribution: Azure Linux 4.0
#15I have 5.25 diskettes of "Microsoft Linux" from the 1990s. I'm reasonably certain that was the first.
Microsoft published its own UNIX from 1980 to 1987: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenix?wprov=sfla1
Re: Microsoft surprises with its first server Linux distribution: Azure Linux 4.0
#16I don’t really follow what they mean by no package manager. If you’re developing, won’t you need JavaScript or python or elixir or rust or go? This whole thing just run containers and your container still has to run some other distribution?
These are called distroless. The concept is already existing for a while and it's used to ship your application, already packaged or built/transpiled by yourself.
Re: Microsoft surprises with its first server Linux distribution: Azure Linux 4.0
#17It finally happened, 23 years later! /s https://web.archive.org/web/20251108032058/https://mslinux.o...
Heh. > MS Linux is released under the provisions of the Gates Private License, which means you can freely use this Software on a single machine without warranty after having paid the purchase price and annual renewal fees.
It arose as a joke site from /., when and where people still had a sense of humor.
Re: Microsoft surprises with its first server Linux distribution: Azure Linux 4.0
#18I don’t really follow what they mean by no package manager. If you’re developing, won’t you need JavaScript or python or elixir or rust or go? This whole thing just run containers and your container still has to run some other distribution?
Flatcar (that it is based on) is designed to only run containers. So you don’t install any tools via a package manager, you would pull containers to do the work.
You can do one-off configuration by writing scripts to run when the machine first boots, but after that the whole system is immutable except for whatever containers you’ve configured
Re: Microsoft surprises with its first server Linux distribution: Azure Linux 4.0
#19I guess it is good for Microsoft. By using fedora they can use red hats work. If Linux is cancer, then Microsoft is a parasite leeching off the cancer.
Re: Microsoft surprises with its first server Linux distribution: Azure Linux 4.0
#20Are we at the ‘extend’ stage now?