Surprised it doesn't have Copilot in the name somewhere
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
#62No 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…
Sorry to break it to you, but on that timeline, the good things got poisoned. IBM enhanced Lisp with Enterprise Ready features like Spreadsheet Macro Builder, Microsoft took over development of Smalltalk and morphed it into BASIC 2.0, and the HURD community lost a bizarre copyright lawsuit. Fortunately for those folks, an intrepid hacker in the 90s saw some of the interesting ideas in MS-DOS and rebuilt it as LS-DOS. Today, most of their servers and mobile phones run LS-DOS or similar.
Re: Azure Linux 4.0 is Microsoft's first general-purpose Linux
#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
Sorry to break it to you, but on that timeline, the good things got poisoned. IBM enhanced Lisp with Enterprise Ready features like Spreadsheet Macro Builder, Microsoft took over development of Smalltalk and morphed it into BASIC 2.0, and the HURD community lost a bizarre copyright lawsuit. Fortunately for those folks, an intrepid hacker in the 90s saw some of the interesting ideas in MS-DOS and rebuilt it as LS-DOS.…
LSD-OS would be an AI core unsupported by runtime and operating system that cascades streams of consciousness in a portable cartridge smartphone form factor until mounted on an embodiment to become unified and coherent.
Re: Azure Linux 4.0 is Microsoft's first general-purpose Linux
#64No 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…
That's not at all how it went down.
Please don't spread lies about Gary.
Re: 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
#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sorry to break it to you, but on that timeline, the good things got poisoned. IBM enhanced Lisp with Enterprise Ready features like Spreadsheet Macro Builder, Microsoft took over development of Smalltalk and morphed it into BASIC 2.0, and the HURD community lost a bizarre copyright lawsuit. Fortunately for those folks, an intrepid hacker in the 90s saw some of the interesting ideas in MS-DOS and rebuilt it as LS-DOS.…
LSD-OS would be an AI core unsupported by runtime and operating system that cascades streams of consciousness in a portable cartridge smartphone form factor until mounted on an embodiment to become unified and coherent.
Ah. A common (and understandable) misconception. LSD-OS doesn’t enhance anything in the UX, it just removes the filters that prevent you from seeing reality, man.
Some confuse this with LDS-OS, which makes the user weirdly and unquestionably `nice` by only accepting inputs from protected mode.
Re: Azure Linux 4.0 is Microsoft's first general-purpose Linux
#67I am not exactly waiting for Linux that will have obligatory ads and will take screenshots of my desktop and send them somewhere. Sorry Bill, but now, I've been through this already, I saw how superior DR DOS goes down because your mom was IBM board member, I had to use Windows 98 Millenium Edition, I was lucky to skip Windows Vista. So, again, no, thanks, never again.
Same with your cloud offering, ridiculous solutions like Azure Service Bus that has pathetic performance, pathetic API and high price.
Re: Azure Linux 4.0 is Microsoft's first general-purpose Linux
#68"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.
Got to meet those KPIs regarding using AI on the job.
I thought using AI for everything is the new cool.
Re: 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
#70How 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?
They are valued 4 trillon dollars, lots of FOSS stuff now depends on Microsoft's money.
Valve has to translate Windows and DirectX to have any meaningful games on the SteamDeck.
Only HNers to think Microsoft is desperate.