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General purpose Linux OS for Azure

42 mentions on Hacker News by 37 people: 10 stories, 32 comments · first 2021-04-21 · latest 2026-08-25

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  1. And Linux is the premier OS on Azure. I'll never stop getting a kick out of Azure Linux. https://github.com/microsoft/azurelinux
    comment by gregors · 2026-08-25 · in Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra
  2. …by package the way 1.0 through 3.0 were." And if you are still unsure. Checkout the repo: * < https://github.com/microsoft/azurelinux > or more specifically, the releases * < https://github.com/microsoft/azurelinux/releases >
    comment by xaerise · 2026-06-05 · in Azure Linux 4.0 is Microsoft's first general-purpose Linux
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    Microsoft Azure Linux
    story by jaboutboul · 2026-05-19 · 0 comments
  4. Fedora-based, on GitHub here: https://github.com/microsoft/azurelinux An open-source Linux distribution built and optimized for Azure, with sources derived from Fedora Linux. Azure Linux provides a secured, reliable operating system for…
    comment by magicalhippo · 2026-05-19 · in Microsoft surprises with its first server Linux distribution: Azure Linux 4.0
  5. https://github.com/microsoft/azurelinux
    comment by anygivnthursday · 2026-05-01 · in For Linux kernel vulnerabilities, there is no heads-up to distributions
  6. It is not published in the store yet for WSL, but you can use it in WSL using the instructions here: https://github.com/microsoft/azurelinux/issues/10997 There is no graphical environment, but you could probably pull that off with some…
    comment by jaboutboul · 2026-01-29 · in Microsoft's Azure Linux
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    Microsoft's Azure Linux
    story by AbuAssar · 2026-01-29 · 109 comments
  8. …having anyone selling any GNU/Linux hardware at PC stores, past the oldie netbooks wave. [0] - https://github.com/microsoft/azurelinux
    comment by pjmlp · 2025-11-18 · in Windows 11 adds AI agent that runs in background with access to personal folders
  9. The future is now (actually a few years old): https://github.com/microsoft/azurelinux
    comment by not_a_bot_4sho · 2025-11-10 · in The Linux Kernel Looks to “Bite the Bullet” in Enabling Microsoft C Extensions
  10. …for key kernel modules, and drivers. If Microsoft would care they have all the penguin tools, https://github.com/microsoft/azurelinux https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure-sphere/product-overv...
    comment by pjmlp · 2025-07-23 · in 20 years of Linux on the Desktop (part 4)
  11. What about azure Linux and cbl -mariner before that? https://github.com/microsoft/azurelinux
    comment by mikerg87 · 2024-10-20 · in Why Doesn't Microsoft Do Their Own Linux Distro?
  12. ▲ 2
    Microsoft Azure Linux (cloud v3 and not Wal)
    story by ngcc_hk · 2024-09-23 · 1 comment
  13. https://github.com/microsoft/azurelinux
    comment by ip_addr · 2024-07-30 · in Microsoft apologises after thousands report new outage
  14. ….microsoft.com/t5/windows-os-platform-b... However plenty of Azure infrastructure uses Linux as well, https://github.com/microsoft/azurelinux https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/sonic-the-networking-...
    comment by pjmlp · 2024-07-12 · in Windows NT for Power Macintosh
  15. VMware and Microsoft ship Linux images built for VMs https://github.com/vmware/photon https://github.com/microsoft/cbl-mariner
    comment by moondev · 2024-04-02 · in A path out of bloat: A Linux built for VMs
  16. They're even already producing their own Linux distribution, CBL-Mariner, https://github.com/microsoft/azurelinux
    comment by Twirrim · 2024-03-05 · in Microsoft is ending support for the Windows Subsystem for Android (WSA)
  17. They have/do, here you go: https://github.com/microsoft/CBL-Mariner
    comment by Someone1234 · 2023-09-22 · in Reasons Windows Is Going in the Wrong Direction
  18. …2: https://docs.oracle.com/en/solutions/migrate-centos-ora-linu... 3. https://github.com/microsoft/CBL-Mariner
    comment by haytamoptika · 2023-07-11 · in SUSE is forking RHEL
  19. They already have that, https://github.com/microsoft/CBL-Mariner https://www.infoq.com/news/2023/06/azure-linux-cbl-mariner/
    comment by pjmlp · 2023-07-05 · in LXD is now under Canonical
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    CBL-Mariner – internal Linux distribution for Microsoft’s cloud infrastructure
    story by kristianpaul · 2023-06-23 · 0 comments
  21. https://github.com/microsoft/CBL-Mariner (Based on following links from https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/aks/use-azure-linux )
    comment by Arnavion · 2023-05-29 · in Microsoft has made Azure Linux generally available
  22. they have an internal distro on github: https://github.com/microsoft/CBL-Mariner
    comment by bearzdev · 2022-08-16 · in .NET 6 is now in Ubuntu 22.04
  23. …free/open-source Linux by Microsoft : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBL-Mariner CBL-Mariner : https://github.com/microsoft/CBL-Mariner
    comment by News-Dog · 2022-07-22 · in Get over it: Microsoft is a Linux and open source company these days
  24. https://github.com/microsoft/CBL-Mariner Microsoft's linux platforms presently run mostly on Ubuntu. You're right that one way out of that dependency would be to buy Canonical. They chose to make their own top level Linux distro instead.
    comment by ohthehugemanate · 2022-05-11 · in Red Hat RHEL 9 release
  25. …opportunity. Their name is big enough to create a store. They already have a linux distro BTW https://github.com/microsoft/CBL-Mariner I think this is what never made sense to me about the failure of Windows Phone. They have a store. They…
    comment by ramesh31 · 2022-05-05 · in On the Duopoly of Mobile
  26. …opportunity. Their name is big enough to create a store. They already have a linux distro BTW https://github.com/microsoft/CBL-Mariner
    comment by SemanticStrengh · 2022-05-05 · in On the Duopoly of Mobile
  27. …Linux Distro : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBL-Mariner GitHub - microsoft/CBL-Mariner: Linux OS : https://github.com/microsoft/CBL-Mariner
    comment by News-Dog · 2022-03-20 · in Microsoft Enables SELinux by Default for CBL-Mariner Linux Distro
  28. They do have a Linux distro. https://github.com/microsoft/CBL-Mariner/
    comment by WalterSobchak · 2022-02-18 · in Windows 11 Pro will soon require a Microsoft Account during initial setup
  29. …CBL-Mariner [1]. Not a desktop offering, obviously, but I felt like it was worth pointing out. [1] https://github.com/microsoft/CBL-Mariner
    comment by flibbityflob · 2022-02-18 · in Windows 11 Pro will soon require a Microsoft Account during initial setup
  30. Partly false, Microsoft does have its own Linux distribution now. https://github.com/microsoft/CBL-Mariner
    comment by Flameancer · 2021-10-10 · in Part of Windows 11 is a revamped Windows Subsystem for Linux
  31. ▲ 4
    Microsoft updates its CBL-Mariner Linux distro
    story by marcodiego · 2021-08-17 · 1 comment
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    CBL-Mariner – Linux OS for Azure 1P services and edge appliances
    story by AtomicOrbital · 2021-07-20 · 51 comments
  33. …bundled packages. List here [2]. So it's more of a Licensed under MIT unless otherwise stated. [1]. https://github.com/microsoft/CBL-Mariner/blob/1.0/SPECS/linu... [2]. https://github.com/microsoft/CBL-Mariner/blob/1.0/SPECS/LICE...
    comment by Anunayj · 2021-07-20 · in Microsoft Quietly Released Its Own Linux Distro
  34. …Linux distro, CBL-Mariner, and released it under the open source MIT License.” The GitHub repo ( https://github.com/microsoft/CBL-Mariner ) confirms that license. Linux is GPL2 licensed, so that can’t be included. Is this more a distro…
    comment by Someone · 2021-07-19 · in Microsoft Quietly Released Its Own Linux Distro
  35. Link to the Github repo is here: https://github.com/microsoft/CBL-Mariner Makes me wonder when/if we will see WoL (Windows on Linux).
    comment by MR4D · 2021-07-19 · in Microsoft Quietly Released Its Own Linux Distro
  36. ▲ 1
    CBL-Mariner: Linux distribution for Microsoft’s cloud and edge products services
    story by teleforce · 2021-07-18 · 0 comments
  37. ▲ 3
    Microsoft's Linux Distribution, CBL-Mariner
    story by tomrod · 2021-07-17 · 0 comments
  38. As indicated here ( https://github.com/microsoft/CBL-Mariner/blob/1.0/LICENSES-A... ), the MIT license is for source code actually contained in the repo. The bulk of this repo are spec files which define dependencies and how to…
    comment by icegreentea2 · 2021-07-12 · in A Look into CBL-Mariner, Microsoft’s Internal Linux Distribution
  39. It's not mentioned on their security features page[1]. [1] https://github.com/microsoft/CBL-Mariner/blob/1.0/toolkit/do...
    comment by l0b0 · 2021-07-12 · in A Look into CBL-Mariner, Microsoft’s Internal Linux Distribution
  40. ▲ 4
    Microsoft's internal version of Linux for Azure hosts and containers
    story by SBArbeit · 2021-04-29 · 1 comment
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    Microsoft CBL-Mariner Distro
    story by Bluestein · 2021-04-21 · 1 comment
  42. It's called CBL-Mariner: https://github.com/microsoft/CBL-Mariner
    comment by favorited · 2021-04-21 · in Initial preview of GUI app support for the Windows Subsystem for Linux