Microsoft Releases Azure Linux 3.0 Preview (www.phoronix.com)
from mudle@lemmy.ml to linux@lemmy.ml on 06 Jun 2024 15:11
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autotldr@lemmings.world on 06 Jun 2024 15:15 next collapse

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Microsoft has published its first tagged preview of the upcoming Azure Linux 3.0 operating system.

Azure Linux – formerly what was known as CBL-Mariner as their in-house Linux distribution used for purposes from Azure to WSL to Windows IoT – is preparing for a big v3.0 update.

On Wednesday the Azure Linux 3.0.20240524-3.0 preview release was published.

No formal release notes have yet to be posted for the Azure Linux 3.0 changes in full.

Those wanting to try out the preview release of Microsoft Azure Linux 3.0 can find the pre-release on GitHub.

Azure Linux 3.0 preview releasing on the Phoronix 20th birthday is a nice present… Microsoft maintaining their own Linux distribution certainly wasn’t on my bingo card or wildest imagination twenty years ago.

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Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world on 06 Jun 2024 16:10 next collapse

Embrace.

dabu@lemmy.world on 06 Jun 2024 16:24 next collapse

MS has been using Linux on their servers for years

Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world on 06 Jun 2024 16:27 collapse

And are now releasing something for users, which is a different animal.

just_another_person@lemmy.world on 06 Jun 2024 16:55 next collapse

Literally no difference.

LeFantome@programming.dev on 07 Jun 2024 04:41 collapse

It is for running on Azure and is the base under WSL.

jonne@infosec.pub on 06 Jun 2024 16:36 next collapse

Still funny that there’s a Microsoft Linux distro. Didn’t think that would ever happen 20 years ago.

Pacmanlives@lemmy.world on 07 Jun 2024 01:36 collapse

It is so funny to me as well. I remember M$ calling Linux cancer

DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org on 07 Jun 2024 09:59 next collapse

They were right, it’s metastasising now

gwen@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 08 Jun 2024 08:24 collapse

LINK PLEASE LMFAO

Pacmanlives@lemmy.world on 08 Jun 2024 14:14 next collapse
toikpi@feddit.uk on 08 Jun 2024 16:51 collapse

The original interview is no longer available, but here are references.

Microsoft CEO and incontinent over-stater of facts Steve Ballmer said that “Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches,” during a commercial spot masquerading as a interview with the Chicago Sun-Times on June 1, 2001.

Ballmer was trying to articulate his concern, whether real or imagined, that limited recourse to the GNU GPL requires that all software be made open source.

“The way the license is written, if you use any open-source software, you have to make the rest of your software open source,” Ballmer explained to an excessively credulous, un-named Sun-Times reporter who, predictably, neglected to question this bold assertion.

theregister.com/…/top_10_steve_ballmer_quotes_fro…

“Ballmer: I may have called Linux a cancer but now I love it” zdnet.com/…/ballmer-i-may-have-called-linux-a-can…

“Former Microsoft CEO Ballmer does about-face on Linux technology” reuters.com/…/us-microsoft-ballmer-linux-idUSKCN0…

mudle@lemmy.ml on 06 Jun 2024 17:51 next collapse

LMAO. Microsoft really made Windows Server and won’t even use that crap themselves.

goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org on 07 Jun 2024 02:52 next collapse

They don’t want to deal with their licensing either 😂

possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip on 07 Jun 2024 04:11 collapse

Have you used WS? It is a beast and is totally different. It is also the only option for many organizations as Samba and Linux aren’t doable in some cases.

LeFantome@programming.dev on 07 Jun 2024 04:39 collapse

SAMBA? Did you mean Azure blob storage?

possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip on 07 Jun 2024 20:32 collapse

No Samba as in the SMB server

semperverus@lemmy.world on 08 Jun 2024 02:18 collapse

You missed the joke

perishthethought@lemm.ee on 06 Jun 2024 18:00 collapse

Oh neat! What comes after that?

kionite231@lemmy.ca on 07 Jun 2024 14:47 collapse

Extend and then Extinguish

MrSoup@lemmy.zip on 06 Jun 2024 16:54 next collapse

Seems to be based mostly on Fedora by reading the Readme.

I would like to know if it does use systemd and/or other redhat technologies.

In the readme they mention Qt, does anyone know what DE do they use?

mudle@lemmy.ml on 06 Jun 2024 18:11 next collapse

I don’t think it ships with a desktop environment by default; I think they’re just referring to the Qt framework. If it is mentioning a desktop environment - it’s probably LXQt.

MrSoup@lemmy.zip on 06 Jun 2024 19:21 collapse

I know Microsoft gave Gnome a donation of 10.000$ because they use Ubuntu (which use Gnome) and inside the repo (inside SPECS folder) I’ve seen gnome-commons to build gnoem stuff.

But yes, this is probably a server distro without a DE.

SquiffSquiff@lemmy.sdf.org on 07 Jun 2024 13:43 next collapse

If you follow the links, you’ll see that it’s essentially a new name for/ release of CBL-Mariner. from the GitHub readme:

CBL-Mariner is an internal Linux distribution for Microsoft’s cloud infrastructure and edge products and services.

hobbsc@lemmy.sdf.org on 07 Jun 2024 15:23 next collapse

I’d wager it uses systemd considering Lennart Poettering works for Microsoft.

woelkchen@lemmy.world on 08 Jun 2024 07:54 collapse

I’d wager

Just look it up instead of making wild guesses: github.com/microsoft/azurelinux/tree/…/systemd

LeFantome@programming.dev on 08 Jun 2024 04:10 collapse

It does use systemd. It uses SELinux and dnf as well. It seems to be patterned in Fedora or CentOS Stream. There is no desktop environment.

makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml on 06 Jun 2024 17:43 next collapse

I wonder how much “metrics” data is sent home?

xtapa@discuss.tchncs.de on 06 Jun 2024 17:54 collapse

All of it.

phoenixz@lemmy.ca on 06 Jun 2024 20:02 next collapse

Gotta make sure Linux also has ads and spyware somehow!

woelkchen@lemmy.world on 08 Jun 2024 07:33 collapse

Gotta make sure Linux also has ads and spyware somehow!

ChromeOS has that covered.

phoenixz@lemmy.ca on 27 Aug 2024 15:04 collapse

Same shit, different company

cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 07 Jun 2024 02:32 next collapse

honestly the way they’re going i could see windows just be a desktop environment for a Linux based os in the future

01189998819991197253@infosec.pub on 07 Jun 2024 02:45 next collapse

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possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip on 07 Jun 2024 04:09 next collapse

Copilot when?

warmaster@lemmy.world on 07 Jun 2024 23:34 collapse

Just after Recall.

exanime@lemmy.today on 08 Jun 2024 14:56 collapse

We all love icecream but who’d love turd icecream?

Because I don’t get who’d want to use an MS Linux distro

ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca on 10 Jun 2024 18:15 collapse

They wouldn’t release it if they weren’t obligated to

exanime@lemmy.today on 10 Jun 2024 20:21 collapse

It’s mandated? How come? Sorry I’m out of the loop

ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca on 10 Jun 2024 20:52 collapse

Depends on the given software but kernel edits for instance need to be public. That’s why Android is open source

Since this is their Cloud software I imagine they need to provide their source to customers.

It might just have been easier to push the whole of the open source side than it would be to pick and choose