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Say Hi to Microsoft's Own Linux: CBL-Mariner

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

DannyB writes:

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 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.

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  • (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.