I am curious what server admins think of this? I think Microsoft is catching my attention with wsl and now an actual distro. What do you think of this?
Are that many CVE’s normal?
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I won’t be touching that with a barge-pole! M$ and Linux? Remember Steve Ballmer? “Linux is a cancer!” Nope, don’t trust them one bit! (see what I did there? 
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Embrace, extend, and extinguish.
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Has anyone asked for this?
I’m they found ways, to make it inefficient [with system resources]
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Ooowee a fully compatible layer 3 device
Good marketing ms
Am I the only caveman that refuses to use the WSL system because I feel like I have no control over it and keeps spinning up VMs?
WIP by Microsoft that’s figuring out that most of the businesses out there are not using their servers to host stuff and it’s getting on the bandwagon (too late in my opinion). There’s not enough meat to judge it, it’s a whatever distro a passionate kid could put together.
Why, yes in fact!
CBL Mainer is used as the underlying host OS for the Azure infrastructure for some parts.
I’ve downloaded the ISO and will play around with it in my lab. Seems interesting.
Meh? AFAIK, this was made public last year.
Microsoft has been doing Linux on Azure for quite a while now, I don’t really see how this is any more special than Amazon Linux.
It is the first I am hearing about it. full on fledge linux not wsl.
So, not satisfied with screwing up their own, they want to screw up someone else’s.
How nice of them to do that to us …
Ah…
Oops…
I mean for us.
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So does anyone, besides me, find it at least mildly funny that the worlds largest provider of an OS runs their cloud computing service on another OS that their former CEO called a “caner”?
By “mildly” I mean that I fell off of my chair laughing, when I heard that they did.
And now they have their OWN distro?
Just to damn funny.
Yeah, that’s because they switched their business model to selling SaaS/PaaS to customers instead of just office and OS applications.
And since lots of people want to run Linux it made financial sense
Sure, but doesn’t that raise the question that @georgezilla implies, “Why should anyone use Windows Server when Microsoft does not?”
For general-purpose use on a small scale, Windows Server is relatively easy to use, familiar, and quite general in that you can make almost any kind of server with it. At a price.
But for large scale implementations of more specific kinds of servers, *nix seems to rule.
I wonder what the statistics are for large Windows Server farms compared to *nix? I mean, how many companies use Windows Servers for larger implementations than, say, domain management?
They use both (where it makes sense).
Worth starting a separate thread for this.