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Introducing: RHEL but worse!
Now 30% AI generated!
(Use for entertainment purposes only.)
We have been teasing about Microsoft Linux for years, and now when it happens it's a bit hollow.
Xenix/GNU/Linux, all the pain of Microsoft UNIX, now with a Linux kernel!
If you can test and deploy azure stacks to this, as a self hosted solution for "does this work before we deploy it for real" as well as local integration testing, this is massive for developers.
Having a locally hosted simpler instance of azure would be amazing for testing our shit out and making sure we didnt break stuff before we deploy to azure for real $$$
You should look into Azure Local, formerly Azure Stack HCI, but it has limitations like no blob equivalent, but I see another commenter has already mentioned Azurite, as it is the solution that can work on some desktops. Azure Stack Hub is more complete but it requires enterprise hw, eg DELL blades etc, to run with mandatory redundancy requirements so not cheap.
it's not the full stack, but there is a storage emulator: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/common/storage-use-azurite
It’s like the hope for Linux, but with an odd sense of baggage you know just can’t get shaken away enough to start clean. Maybe if they had downloaded Fedora, didn’t nothing else, then proclaimed “we did it!!” They might have something.
"Fedora-based, Microsoft-cringe. The all new Azure 4.0 Linux distro!"
Does it have copilot?
Ok so I'm not very into tech and I had a hard time understanding what was going on especially since I didn't know what Microsoft Azure was. So TIL that's a computing cloud system, and that now you have a Linux distro called Azure as well which can be run on this cloud for some reason but also on your laptop (I guess it operates from the cloud? Bit confused about that too)
Now the million dollar question: why? Why is Microsoft doing this? They are obviously seeing a path to fuck people over in a couple of chess moves, but I'm not good at this game, so here I'm asking those of you who actually understand the significance of this
- For their internal Linux needs - Most of Microlop infrastructure runs on Linux, so they've optimized the os for themselves
- For their customers - a lot of companies will choose it because they want Linux but they also want one supported by Microslop for some reason
I read a blog post from an ex-lead engineer on Azure. That drove Azure into the ground to an extend where it was not salvagable anymore. So they needed to start from scratch. The solution is to start anew from Linux.
Do you have a link to that blog post, by chance? I’d like to learn more!
This is just Mariner now allowed to exist outside AKS and rebranded. Used mainly if you are running c++ or .net components as unlike a more lightweight distribution like Alpine that ships with musl, it ships with glibc.
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this post was submitted on 19 May 2026
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