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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Still funny that there’s a Microsoft Linux distro. Didn’t think that would ever happen 20 years ago.
LMAO. Microsoft really made Windows Server and won’t even use that crap themselves.
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.
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’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
I wonder how much “metrics” data is sent home?
Gotta make sure Linux also has ads and spyware somehow!
Gotta make sure Linux also has ads and spyware somehow!
ChromeOS has that covered.
