[Cialug] Microsoft Linux

[Dave Hala]

The problem here is that we don't know what Microsoft's real requirements
are. At first glance it really just looks like they built something to
solve an internal need, not create a distro for the masses.

On Fri, Aug 6, 2021 at 7:11 PM Dan Hockey <icepuck2k at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.)
> > >
> > > --
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