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

nullpoint420

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

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?

unethical_ban

Tldr a MSFT maintained fedora fork tuned for Azure hardware.

codycharris

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

smitty1e

[laughs in Torvalds.]

drnick1

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.

mattoxic

"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.

gnabgib

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

ramon156

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?

ChrisArchitect

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

jdw64

What advantages does Azure Linux have compared to Ubuntu?

fortran77

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