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

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

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?

Previously (61 points, 17 days ago, 49 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48187736

Microsoft's Azure Linux (66 points, 4 months ago, 109 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46805841

Moving from tdnf to dnf5 is interesting. Most internal platforms get more bespoke over time, not less.

"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.

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?

What advantages does Azure Linux have compared to Ubuntu?

Surprised it doesn't have Copilot in the name somewhere

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

Microsoft was a *nix supporter from the very beginning, with Microsoft Xenix.

This is a nonevent, unless perhaps some genuine "general purpose" tools come out of this. MS will never contribute to things such as Wine and Proton and kill its golden goose.

[laughs in Torvalds.]

Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48187736

I 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.

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

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Tldr a MSFT maintained fedora fork tuned for Azure hardware.

Microsoft has sacked American coders in favor of low-cost, unqualified Indian H1B's. Soon we'll see Windows jettisoned altogether in favor of Linux.