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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

…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

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

https://github.com/microsoft/azurelinux

comment by anygivnthursday · 2026-05-01 · in For Linux kernel vulnerabilities, there is no heads-up to distributions

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

…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

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

…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)

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?

https://github.com/microsoft/azurelinux

comment by ip_addr · 2024-07-30 · in Microsoft apologises after thousands report new outage

….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

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

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)

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

…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

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

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

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

…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

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

…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

…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

…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

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

…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

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

…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

…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

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

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

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

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