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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 giancarlostoro »

nullpoint420 wrote: post #2

Embrace, Extend, Extinguish anyone? Although, as a Fedora user I'm happy it's RPM based.

Little harder to pull that off when the key components are all GPL licensed, but also all of Microsoft's bits and pieces for their distro seem to be MIT Licensed. Honestly, it certainly feels more like Google lives by Embrace, Extend, Extinguish (email, browsers, video streaming, etc).

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

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Post by greenavocado »

giancarlostoro wrote: post #3
nullpoint420 wrote: post #2

Embrace, Extend, Extinguish anyone? Although, as a Fedora user I'm happy it's RPM based.

Little harder to pull that off when the key components are all GPL licensed, but also all of Microsoft's bits and pieces for their distro seem to be MIT Licensed. Honestly, it certainly feels more like Google lives by Embrace, Extend, Extinguish (email, browsers, video streaming, etc).

That's why they're pushing hardware attestation so aggressively

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

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Post by nullpoint420 »

giancarlostoro wrote: post #3
nullpoint420 wrote: post #2

Embrace, Extend, Extinguish anyone? Although, as a Fedora user I'm happy it's RPM based.

Little harder to pull that off when the key components are all GPL licensed, but also all of Microsoft's bits and pieces for their distro seem to be MIT Licensed. Honestly, it certainly feels more like Google lives by Embrace, Extend, Extinguish (email, browsers, video streaming, etc).

Agreed on the Google front here.

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Post by tossit444 »

nullpoint420 wrote: post #2

Embrace, Extend, Extinguish anyone? Although, as a Fedora user I'm happy it's RPM based.

Not really. They've always advertised it for, well, Azure, and the actual announcement[0] makes it clear that it's simply a distro for Azure workloads. Considering they state it's "built exclusively for cloud and server workloads, it is not intended to support desktop usage or GUI applications," Microsoft isn't playing that game here.

[0] https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/linuxandopensourceb...

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

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Post by yjftsjthsd-h »

nullpoint420 wrote: post #2

Embrace, Extend, Extinguish anyone? Although, as a Fedora user I'm happy it's RPM based.

As a Fedora hater, I'm also happy it's RPM based; IMO, .debs are just flat out worse than .rpm as a format and the tooling on top matches that. I do wonder, though:

> 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.

Then what's the point? They could just ship Fedora. There are minor differences, but all things that sound easy to get upstreamed with minimal effort.

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

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Post by froh »

call me old fashioned isn't a general purpose OS one that runs on any hardware and set up? and is certified with hardware vendors for full backing and support?

all this says is: "MS now provides a unified Linux from WSL to the MS cloud. just like what you got w/ SUSE RH canonical up to now. but without any support outside the MS stack.", right?

or am I missing something?

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