[Cialug] Microsoft Linux

[Dan Hockey]

I thought WSL was supposed to be the next hip way to Linux on Windows since
it's based on Ubuntu. Then why is CBL based on bits and pieces fedora based
distros? From a learning perspective one would think that the logical
choice would be to stay with the Ubuntu ecosystem.

On Fri, Aug 6, 2021 at 4:28 PM David Champion <dchamp1337 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Why?
>
> -dc
>
> On Fri, Aug 6, 2021, 6:25 PM Todd Walton <tdwalton at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Microsoft's Linux distro is available to download and run and, according
> to
> > SJVN, you might even want to run it yourself.
> >
> >
> https://www.zdnet.com/article/say-hi-to-microsofts-own-linux-cbl-mariner/
> >
> > One wonders if that's true. Amazon's distro is shite unless your running
> it
> > on AWS, and in that case it's... merely sufficient. Would not MS's distro
> > be similar?
> >
> > I'll stick with Red Hat in the server room, thank you.
> >
> > (Or Rocky Linux.)
> >
> > --
> > Todd
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