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posted by Fnord666 on Monday July 19 2021, @07:21PM   Printer-friendly
from the refrigeration-in-hecking-blazes-tarnation dept.

Say hi to Microsoft's own Linux: CBL-Mariner

Microsoft has its own Linux distribution and, yes, you can download, install and run it. In fact, you may want to do just that.

Ok, so it's not named MS-Linux or Lindows, but Microsoft now has its very own, honest-to-goodness general-purpose Linux distribution: Common Base Linux, (CBL)-Mariner. And, just like any Linux distro, you can download it and run it yourself. Amazing isn't it? Why the next thing you know Microsoft will let you run Windows applications on Linux! Oh, wait it has!

[...] Microsoft didn't make a big fuss about releasing CBL-Mariner. It quietly released the code on GitHub and anyone can use it. Indeed, Juan Manuel Rey, a Microsoft Senior Program Manager for Azure VMware, recently published a guide on how to build an ISO CBL-Mariner image. Before this, if you were a Linux expert, with a spot of work you could run it, but now, thanks to Rey, anyone with a bit of Linux skill can do it.

CBL-Mariner is not a Linux desktop. Like Azure Sphere, Microsoft's first specialized Linux distro, which is used for securing edge computing services, it's a server-side Linux.

This Microsoft-branded Linux is an internal Linux distribution. It's meant for Microsoft's cloud infrastructure and edge products and services. Its main job is to provide a consistent Linux platform for these devices and services. Just like Fedora is to Red Hat, it keeps Microsoft on Linux's cutting edge.

Is this the year of the Linux desktop?


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  • (Score: 2) by fakefuck39 on Monday July 19 2021, @07:52PM (29 children)

    by fakefuck39 (6620) on Monday July 19 2021, @07:52PM (#1157999)

    here's the article on this news - from 2020
    https://www.infoworld.com/article/3596347/microsoft-adds-a-new-linux-cbl-mariner.html [infoworld.com]

    Now the real question is, why did this old news just pop up on soylent just now? Because there's a couple of people here who go to hacker news, and steal articles from a few days ago.

    if you want to have a conversation about it, without the minorite blue-green spacelaser ethanol jew conspiracy guy, the autistic guy, and the bitter incel, our real discussion was here - no trolls allowed.
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27792366 [ycombinator.com]

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 19 2021, @08:18PM (20 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 19 2021, @08:18PM (#1158016)

    Did something happen to hacker news?

    I left it when it was becoming little more than a corporate astroturfing ground, with like 80% of the front page articles just politicrap from the NYTimes and other similar clickbait factories, gradually descending into becoming Reddit-lite. The front page now looks a lot like it did about 10 years ago when it was still an interesting site. Wow, just perusing some of the links like this [lab6.com]. Seriously, was there a crackdown or something?

    • (Score: 2) by fakefuck39 on Monday July 19 2021, @09:12PM (19 children)

      by fakefuck39 (6620) on Monday July 19 2021, @09:12PM (#1158041)

      >little more than a corporate astroturfing
      what happened is it got worse, and more of an echo chamber. then you got people talking for an hour about being nice to each other when someone posts a snarky comment, which gets them shadowbanned after a couple of times.

      so it got much worse. but what you consider corp astroturfing, is devs and managers for big companies posting about important projects that we're interested in talking about. one of these "astroturfing" posts was the start of airbnb. others were stripe, instacart, doordash, and reddit.

      I'm guessing you go on github and are amazed by the amount of project listings, which you view as ads for projects?

      Reddit lite? Strange, on reddit it's a bunch of edgy teens telling experts they're wrong after a google search. On hn, when this linux topic was posted here, I talked to a microsoft guy about it. When I had an AWS issue and couldn't get support to respond, I asked there and talked to a director at amazon who fixed my issue in about 2 hours.

      hn is where important people who actually do things in live hang out. if you think that's reddit, good thing you left. you don't belong there.

      ..and stay out.

      • (Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Monday July 19 2021, @10:33PM (3 children)

        by hendrikboom (1125) Subscriber Badge on Monday July 19 2021, @10:33PM (#1158077) Homepage Journal

        people talking for an hour about being nice to each other when someone posts a snarky comment

        A simple attempt to encourage being nice to one another, not by admonishing, but by drowning nasty comments in oceans of irrelevance.

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 19 2021, @11:54PM (1 child)

          by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 19 2021, @11:54PM (#1158102)

          Isn't this Snark Week?

          • (Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 20 2021, @03:09AM

            by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 20 2021, @03:09AM (#1158143)

            Minor correction: it's the hunting of the snark. And it's weak. Everything else is correct though.

        • (Score: 2) by fakefuck39 on Tuesday July 20 2021, @05:09AM

          by fakefuck39 (6620) on Tuesday July 20 2021, @05:09AM (#1158168)

          actually it's your attempt to turn this site into something you want it to be, which others don't want it to be, and which its currently not. this is a place I come to to make fun of social rejects. it's a place you come to for a normal discussion I guess, because you think the actual place for normal discussion is "corporate." because people who are working on well-known things hang out there.

          well, hate to break it to you, people who are on the level to have a good discussion won't have it here. this place is for something else.

      • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 19 2021, @11:13PM (12 children)

        by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 19 2021, @11:13PM (#1158093)

        Oh look, Jews talking about Jew things. [ycombinator.com] Their project launch success rate you described must be due to the high IQ, and absolutely nothing to do with the nepotism Jews are most famous for. You can see the twinkles of glee in a Jew's eyes when he starts talking about things other Jews did, even if it's Jews he doesn't like.

        • (Score: 2) by fakefuck39 on Tuesday July 20 2021, @05:05AM (11 children)

          by fakefuck39 (6620) on Tuesday July 20 2021, @05:05AM (#1158167)

          so, your point is that a jew talks about antisemetism (which somehow surprises you, like when blacks talk about slavery)? or is your point that jews started the second most successful tech company in the world, and hence are stupid, while you still can't figure out fractions or how to use soap? or is your point to repeatedly say retarded things so we can all laugh at you? either way, keep doing what you're doing. you're very entertaining for everyone to look down upon.

          • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 20 2021, @06:10PM (10 children)

            by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 20 2021, @06:10PM (#1158355)

            They make companies with money made from usury and theft of host (mainly white) labor. Jews are parasitic infections on creative and working peoples of the world. You can shove your condescending "blacks have a special claim to whine about slavery" Jew propagandat. They are starting to find out the it was the Jews who ran the Atlantic slave trade and not Whitey. This and other Jew truths are why the Jews are hell bent to censor the internet. Your time is coming Jew rat.

            • (Score: 2) by fakefuck39 on Tuesday July 20 2021, @08:25PM (9 children)

              by fakefuck39 (6620) on Tuesday July 20 2021, @08:25PM (#1158413)

              lol yeah, you're poor lower-class unneducated drunken trailer trash because the jews stole your money.

              >it was the Jews who ran the Atlantic slave trade and not Whitey
              the jews were literally the original slaves who built the pyramids. this is knowledge you acquire in 6th grade. looks like you never made it to middle school. which explains a lot.

              • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 20 2021, @11:15PM (8 children)

                by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 20 2021, @11:15PM (#1158495)

                There was no mass Jewish enslavement in Egypt that built the pyramids. This is knowledge you also should have acquired in 6th grade. Looks like you never made it to middle school, which explains a lot.

                • (Score: 1, Troll) by fakefuck39 on Tuesday July 20 2021, @11:29PM (3 children)

                  by fakefuck39 (6620) on Tuesday July 20 2021, @11:29PM (#1158499)

                  sure buddy. stop the steal amirite. i love shitting on dumb crazy people. you have a defect in your DNA, which caused your brain to be malformed. you are now trapped, unable to do much more than feed yourselves and paint a new reality for yourself. the way learning works for you, is you feel you want some fact to exist, you google for "fact exists" - and then you see a bunch of retards like yourself agreeing. that's now your source and proof, so you write about it. a new retard emerges, googles it, and uses your crazy dumb comment as his source. rinse and repeat.

                  what's great is it keeps your genetically inferior people forever what you are. dumb, unsuccessful, fat and poor rednecks. which is the way we like it. much like we like the bearded lady at the circus.

                  >mass Jewish enslavement in Egypt
                  see, there's your mind making shit up again to fit your feelings. you took what I said (true fact) and added the word "mass" to make it false. and now you're arguing with yourself, about a fact you yourself made up. this is because of your genetically defective brain.

                  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 20 2021, @11:57PM (1 child)

                    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 20 2021, @11:57PM (#1158514)

                    You and everyone else knew what you meant. Too bad Cecil B. DeMille wasn't teaching history.

                    • (Score: 2) by fakefuck39 on Wednesday July 21 2021, @12:07AM

                      by fakefuck39 (6620) on Wednesday July 21 2021, @12:07AM (#1158518)

                      The genetically diseased redneck I replied to didn't know what I meant, because the voices in his head create lots of noise. Your comment about hollywood painting the wrong picture I completely, 100% agree with. Here's the issue: christian and gop propaganda sources say "no slaves, because they were paid laborers." It's not an either or, so that's a strawman, and you'll find many sites using that strawman. "They weren't slaves because they were paid."

                      They were indeed paid laborers. Who were slaves, had a master, and could not get themselves free and just leave. Instead of providing food and housing for the slaves, the Egyptian masters paid them a small salary so they could take of their own basic needs. But they weren't free to leave. If this is a concept you don't understand, you should look it up.

                  • (Score: 2) by Pav on Wednesday July 21 2021, @07:30AM

                    by Pav (114) on Wednesday July 21 2021, @07:30AM (#1158688)

                    "A stopped clock is right twice a day". The (quite abundant) evidence suggests the pyramids were constructed by free men, though to be fair in the Torah building of the pyramids wasn't specifically mentioned either... only in subsequent writings. Also, the modern archeological consensus is that the Israelites were natives of Canaan and were never in Egypt. From the evidence it appears the "slave revolt" was actually an overthrow of an urban elite by a rural population in Canaan, which became combined in myth as both the escape from (Egyptian) slavery and the overthrow of "the Canaanites" ie. the city dwelling elite. One can easily imagine the real history might have been politically inconvenient from the perspective of the new urban elites.

                • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 20 2021, @11:45PM (3 children)

                  by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 20 2021, @11:45PM (#1158506)

                  https://www.britannica.com/video/179508/Israelites-Overview-Moses-slavery [britannica.com]
                  "hese drawings on the walls of a temple show the Hebrews, the people of Moses, long before he was commanded by God to deliver them from slavery. The drawings make it quite clear who was in charge. Here, a big, strong Egyptian demonstrates his power over grovelling slaves."

                  This depends on what you define as slaves. They were slaves, but they were paid. Right now, it is commonly agreed that Qatar uses slave labor, yet they do pay them. The people who built the pyramids were paid, but they were slaves - as in not free to leave. "Many slaves who worked for temple estates lived under punitive conditions"

                  "Masters of Ancient Egypt were under obligations when owning slaves." There was a legal process where they could apply to leave their master, however no cases were found that this ever took place. So, paid slave labor. This is called selling yourself into bonded slave labor. "Although slaves were not “free” or rightfully independent, slaves in the New Kingdom were able to leave their master if they had a “justifiable grievance”. Historians have read documents about situations where this could be a possibility but it is still uncertain if independence from slavery was attainable."
                  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_ancient_Egypt [wikipedia.org]

                  Now, this is not 6th grade learning material. It is however learned in college. Which you and your GED clearly did not attend, instead learning history from youtube videos made by other crazy people like yourself.

                  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 21 2021, @12:21AM (2 children)

                    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 21 2021, @12:21AM (#1158526)

                    And what is the composition of those slaves? The modern consensus is that Jews were not in Egypt in any real number, let alone as slaves. [google.com]Where there Semitic slaves? Yes, but most semites back then weren't Jews and semites still represented a minority of slaves. I notice one of your sources is relying on Exodus, which scholars do not believe to be accurate, if it even happened at all. There is no good evidence that up to 3 million people left Egypt at once nor of Moses. Maybe you should have paid more attention in college, or ask for your money back.

                    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 21 2021, @02:07AM (1 child)

                      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 21 2021, @02:07AM (#1158567)

                      Dumptruck69 never made the claim there was a large number of slaves. The redneck made that up, and it was never said. What was said is that Jews were slaves, not that they had slaves - which was the redneck's original claim.

                      You clearly didn't read the encyclopedia britannica link. It's based on paintings, not on exodus. We have found paintings depicting slavery. I would like to know what you think is accomplished arguing against something, when you didn't read what it said. Looking like an idiot is one thing. What else?

                      "There is no good evidence that up to 3 million people left Egypt at once nor of Moses" - cool, good thing no one was arguing that. They were arguing that jews were the slaves, not owned the slaves.

                      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 21 2021, @03:45AM

                        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 21 2021, @03:45AM (#1158617)

                        The title is literally: Learn about the Hebrews, whom Moses led out of slavery in Egypt. Or how about: But who were these people in thrall to the Egyptians? The Bible describes them as nomads who ended up wandering onto Egyptian territory, where they were made the slaves of the Egyptian state. Or Moses was one of these workers. He, and a chance event, changed history. Or maybe the entire closing paragraph of The Bible describes how Moses sees one of his comrades being beaten by an Egyptian guard. In a burst of fury, Moses kills the guard, later burying the body in the sandy soil. Moses has to flee for his life. Putting 400 kilometers between himself and the scene of his crime, he ends up in the Sinai mountains. He lived here for years, taking a wife. Ten years later, the Bible tells us, he returns. He has been commanded to confront the Pharaoh and release his people from their bondage.

      • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 21 2021, @03:28PM (1 child)

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 21 2021, @03:28PM (#1158749)

        lol, I love how you say "we" when you're literally nothing but a washed up alcoholic sexpat with the only person dumb enough to stay with you - a 剩女, and similarly know absolutely nothing about HN.

        • (Score: 2) by fakefuck39 on Wednesday July 21 2021, @04:14PM

          by fakefuck39 (6620) on Wednesday July 21 2021, @04:14PM (#1158770)

          both my wife and I are american, and visit her family, which is in one of those 'china' regions that has its own government. but i get it. you think china, you think sex trip. because you're an incel. enjoy all your porn. hn is what helped me sell storage management to GE. it was one of those 'ads' according to you, where we all talk about our projects. but do make up some more shit that makes you feel better about your shit life, basement loser. btw, i don't drink. at all. but you, i'm positive you drink alone -heineken perhaps, about 10 of them at a time.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 19 2021, @08:37PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 19 2021, @08:37PM (#1158027)

    IMO...MS has eyes and ears everywhere on the Internet, especially when there's something FOSS.

    Never underestimate MS.

    Never forget MS and SCO.

    NEVER forget what happened to Novell after the MS "partnership." Where is Novell now? Exactly.

    MS will buy Canonical though maybe not directly. You see, companies like to hide behind proxies, too. There's probably a lot of things owned by proxy by MS that we'll never hear about.

  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 19 2021, @08:48PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 19 2021, @08:48PM (#1158032)

    Speaking of Hacker News, Fakefuck, you (and a few others on this site) could do with reading and following Hacker News comment guidelines:

    https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html [ycombinator.com]

    Your comments could sometimes be insightful, or at least neutral if not wrapped up in so much self-righteousness and derision of others.

    • (Score: 0, Flamebait) by fakefuck39 on Monday July 19 2021, @09:03PM (2 children)

      by fakefuck39 (6620) on Monday July 19 2021, @09:03PM (#1158039)

      So you want me to follow hacker news guidelines? Because at hacker news, I was discussing the mslinux topic with a microsoft developer. Here, there are no microsoft developers - there's incels, autists, purposely dense clowns, and you - who fit into all those categories.

      Do you go to a chinese restaurant and order a burger, then tell the waiter they should really server burgers, and show them the mcdonalds menu?

      the reason I'm an asshole to people here, is because this site is not for intelligent discussions. A hint would be half the comments are from antivax rednecks and jew space laser conspiracy theorists, and the other half is autistic incels making little songs.

      enjoy your burger.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 19 2021, @10:24PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 19 2021, @10:24PM (#1158070)

        Dickhead is going out of his dickskull again, no surprise here.
        Didja run out of Adderall or just had an attention deficit episode and you forgot to take it on time?

      • (Score: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 20 2021, @12:51AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 20 2021, @12:51AM (#1158117)

        > the reason I'm an asshole to people here

        You being an asshole here is a factor in bringing this site's level of discourse down.

        > there's incels, autists, purposely dense clowns, and you - who fit into all those categories

        Besides the few trolls with the unhealthy fascination with their perverted beliefs about Judaism and its followers, your comments are probably next for adding negativity to the site.

        I originally came to this site because I saw folks with very different world views e.g., gewg and mightybuzzard discussing issues in a mostly civil manner. I don't expect you to change your ways because of my comment, but it would be nice if you reflected even a little on your "contributions" to this site, and whether your tone is beneficial to the site's heath or not.

         

  • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Tuesday July 20 2021, @04:25PM (1 child)

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday July 20 2021, @04:25PM (#1158306) Journal

    why did this old news just pop up on soylent just now?

    Because it was in a ZDNet article dated July 16, 2021.

    --
    People today are educated enough to repeat what they are taught but not to question what they are taught.
    • (Score: 2) by fakefuck39 on Tuesday July 20 2021, @06:39PM

      by fakefuck39 (6620) on Tuesday July 20 2021, @06:39PM (#1158369)

      and I get that, and there are constantly articles being written about the same thing over and over. In fact, you can find an article from somewhere monthly about this topic, since last november. The issue is when over the last few months, a bunch of stories pop up on hn, we have a discussion there, then like 10 stories per week pop up here that were just on hn a few days ago, which out of the thousands of stories is too much of a coincidence. Now if it was just-announced news, I'd get that. But when it's old news, that's been out since November, that's a correlation that's not random.

  • (Score: 2) by Joe Desertrat on Thursday July 22 2021, @08:32PM

    by Joe Desertrat (2454) on Thursday July 22 2021, @08:32PM (#1159227)

    Now the real question is, why did this old news just pop up on soylent just now?

    The answer to this question is in the summary:

    Indeed, Juan Manuel Rey, a Microsoft Senior Program Manager for Azure VMware, recently published a guide on how to build an ISO CBL-Mariner image. Before this, if you were a Linux expert, with a spot of work you could run it, but now, thanks to Rey, anyone with a bit of Linux skill can do it.

    That news was published a little less than 2 weeks ago.