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Azure Linux 4.0 is Microsoft's first general-purpose Linux

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Re: Azure Linux 4.0 is Microsoft's first general-purpose Linux

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Post by jdw64 »

speedgoose wrote: post #49
jdw64 wrote: post #43

What advantages does Azure Linux have compared to Ubuntu?

It's from Microsoft. Many companies love to be very tightly tied to Microsoft, for some reasons. I never really understood the actual underlying reasons. Perhaps Windows 95 was that good and it's brand loyalty since.

Because someone has to be accountable, right? In business practices, having no clear party responsible for an area you don't fully understand is a difficult problem. Ultimately, I think it's a matter of accountability. Regardless of how lightweight and good Linux is, Windows is still a bit more convenient on the GUI side.

Re: Azure Linux 4.0 is Microsoft's first general-purpose Linux

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Post by szszrk »

ramon156 wrote: post #38

How desperate is Microsoft right now? Their model website was trying hard to be Anthropic, now they claim they have a linux distro? Which is just a tuned version? What's next?

> now they claim they have a linux distro?

They have had a linux distro for a while, this one is at least 6 years old. They used it for container workloads, including those visible to client like AKS.

It seems with 4 they are using Fedora underneath.

Re: Azure Linux 4.0 is Microsoft's first general-purpose Linux

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Post by __MatrixMan__ »

WD-42 wrote: post #25
mattoxic wrote: post #23

"Microsoft’s in-house Linux, the distribution that grew out of CBL-Mariner, just hit public preview as a general-purpose cloud OS you can run on any Azure VM. Here is why that is a real step in Microsoft’s Linux journey, not just a version bump." Christ, they even lead with AI slop.

Do people not realize that this just instantly torpedoes credibility and respect? I'm dumbfounded.

Did Microsoft have credibility and respect? They've been abusive towards their users for decades.

Re: Azure Linux 4.0 is Microsoft's first general-purpose Linux

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Post by sourcegrift »

ramon156 wrote: post #38

How desperate is Microsoft right now? Their model website was trying hard to be Anthropic, now they claim they have a linux distro? Which is just a tuned version? What's next?

Xenix was microsoft's. If you do ctrl-alt-f2 (to f7), you have Microsoft to thank

Re: Azure Linux 4.0 is Microsoft's first general-purpose Linux

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Post by b33j0r »

codycharris wrote: post #13

No it's not. It's for tuned for Azure. Nobody is running this outside of their compute environment.

You point to a better timeline. Sometimes—when desperately alone—I imagine.

If only the guy who was destined to close a disk operating system deal with IBM hadn’t been goofing around with his plane that fateful day.

We would all be using lisp machines, running smalltalk on microkernels that put the HURD to shame. Just imagine: instead of backslashes and drive letters, we’d have parens. Endless, syntactically-valid parens.

Or CP/M, probably that. But can it run doom?

Re: Azure Linux 4.0 is Microsoft's first general-purpose Linux

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Post by gunalx »

jraph wrote: post #37
codycharris wrote: post #13

No it's not. It's for tuned for Azure. Nobody is running this outside of their compute environment.

Yeah, a general purpose distro would come with a desktop environment and you'd be able to run it on your PC as your main OS. Calling this general purpose is so misleading. Of course describing reality in titles would have the inconvenience of causing fewer clicks to these articles. The title on HN could be updated though.

According to [1] the guidelines explicitly say to keep editorializing to a specified minimum, unless it is spam. Dont know it this title would allow editorialising

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Re: Azure Linux 4.0 is Microsoft's first general-purpose Linux

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Post by xaerise »

solidarnosc wrote: post #57

Microsoft are pieces of shit lads. Run by nonces. Also 4.0, first? Lord give me strength.

Read the article. MS have shipped 1.0-3.0 earlier...

"Azure Linux 4.0 is derived from Fedora, right now a Fedora 43 snapshot, rather than assembled package by package the way 1.0 through 3.0 were."

And if you are still unsure. Checkout the repo:

* https://github.com/microsoft/azurelinux>

or more specifically, the releases

* https://github.com/microsoft/azurelinux/releases>

Re: Azure Linux 4.0 is Microsoft's first general-purpose Linux

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Post by psychoslave »

b33j0r wrote: post #56
codycharris wrote: post #13

No it's not. It's for tuned for Azure. Nobody is running this outside of their compute environment.

You point to a better timeline. Sometimes—when desperately alone—I imagine. If only the guy who was destined to close a disk operating system deal with IBM hadn’t been goofing around with his plane that fateful day. We would all be using lisp machines, running smalltalk on microkernels that put the HURD to shame. Just imagine: instead of backslashes and drive letters, we’d have parens. Endless, syntactically-valid pa…

Glad that at least we avoided that much more parentheses.

Where is our PL any kind of bracket and other rococo ornamental symbol is at most totally optional?

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