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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
#92No 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.
When he said "general purpose" I totally imagined a desktop environment.
Re: Azure Linux 4.0 is Microsoft's first general-purpose Linux
#93Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'd say old fashioned Linux would come without any certification or support.
I didn't mean DIY / Linux from scratch. and I meant where I come from a general purpose OS is for any purpose, not just to run it on a very specific stack. SUSE - Find Certified Hardware Products https://www.suse.com/yesCertified/home similar pages exist for RH and canonical but then Windows also is a general purpose OS. hm. what if MS strategizes on their hyper-v as hypervisor, with windows as control Panel and all…
What I meant was "pure" non-commercial Linux distros like Debian or Arch.
Re: Azure Linux 4.0 is Microsoft's first general-purpose Linux
#94Earlier quoted context omitted.
I didn't mean DIY / Linux from scratch. and I meant where I come from a general purpose OS is for any purpose, not just to run it on a very specific stack. SUSE - Find Certified Hardware Products https://www.suse.com/yesCertified/home similar pages exist for RH and canonical but then Windows also is a general purpose OS. hm. what if MS strategizes on their hyper-v as hypervisor, with windows as control Panel and all…
What I meant was "pure" non-commercial Linux distros like Debian or Arch.
snicker in slackware. get it, thanks for clarifying.
Re: Azure Linux 4.0 is Microsoft's first general-purpose Linux
#95I’ll never use anything carrying the Azure name for anything I care about.
There, I said it.
Re: Azure Linux 4.0 is Microsoft's first general-purpose Linux
#96Earlier 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…
That's not at all how it went down. Please don't spread lies about Gary.
For posterity, parent is correct. The “flying his plane” story is a memeified summary. I did not actually mean that we would have lisp machines otherwise, which was the tell that I was kidding.
For others who did not get the joke, Kindall was kind of a big deal:
https://computerhistory.org/blog/fifty-years-of-the-personal...
Re: Azure Linux 4.0 is Microsoft's first general-purpose Linux
#97It is bad enough that Microsoft just piggybacks on all the work that Red Hat is doing.
Now they are snapshotting the bleeding-edge distribution and call it general purpose, which carries a strong implication that it is ready for all kinds of production workloads.
It is not. That is why there is a Fedora/RHEL split in the first place.
Re: Azure Linux 4.0 is Microsoft's first general-purpose Linux
#98[laughs in Torvalds.]
[laughs in Gates]
Re: Azure Linux 4.0 is Microsoft's first general-purpose Linux
#99No 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…
> using lisp machines, running smalltalk on microkernels that put the HURD to shame
That future is not different from this future. That road leads down to Javascript and React anyways. (Perhaps with a slightly different syntax.)
Re: Azure Linux 4.0 is Microsoft's first general-purpose Linux
#100I just finished tapping 381 times, disabling (hopefully most of?) Apple Intelligence incursions in my life on a machine I don't really use. Was wondering what will I do next. Oh, look. More crap. That will keep me busy for a while.