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Microsoft Releases Azure Linux 3.0 Preview

www.phoronix.com Microsoft Releases Azure Linux 3.0 Preview

Linux @programming.dev Blaze @lemmy.zip 5 mo. ago

www.phoronix.com /news/Microsoft-Azure-Linux-3.0-Pre

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Embrace.
- LMAO. Microsoft really made Windows Server and won't even use that crap themselves.
  
  They don't want to deal with their licensing either 😂
  
  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.
- Still funny that there's a Microsoft Linux distro. Didn't think that would ever happen 20 years ago.
  
  It is so funny to me as well. I remember M$ calling Linux cancer
- MS has been using Linux on their servers for years
  
  And are now releasing something for users, which is a different animal.
- Oh neat! What comes after that?
  
  Extend and then Extinguish
honestly the way they're going i could see windows just be a desktop environment for a Linux based os in the future
Gotta make sure Linux also has ads and spyware somehow!
- Gotta make sure Linux also has ads and spyware somehow!
  
  ChromeOS has that covered.
  
  Same shit, different company
I wonder how much "metrics" data is sent home?
- All of it.
We all love icecream but who'd love turd icecream?

Because I don't get who'd want to use an MS Linux distro
- They wouldn’t release it if they weren’t obligated to
  
  It's mandated? How come? Sorry I'm out of the loop
Copilot when?
- Just after Recall.
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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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?
- 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.
  
  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.
- 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.
- 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.
- I'd wager it uses systemd considering Lennart Poettering works for Microsoft.
  
  I’d wager
  
  Just look it up instead of making wild guesses: https://github.com/microsoft/azurelinux/tree/3.0-dev/SPECS/systemd

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