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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: -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.

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  • (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.