The rumor of Microsoft working on its own Linux distribution has been going around for a while. Now it’s confirmed by Microsoft themselves:
The Azure Cloud Switch (ACS) is our foray into building our own software for running network devices like switches. It is a cross-platform modular operating system for data center networking built on Linux. ACS allows us to debug, fix, and test software bugs much faster. It also allows us the flexibility to scale down the software and develop features that are required for our datacenter and our networking needs.
The distribution is not for sale or download, but purely for use in their Azure cloud infrastructure. The Register looks at this in detail.
I guess, Mahatma Gandhi was right:
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
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Sounds scary. Did they implement `easy to read’ blue screen already?
Who cares :) There’s Amazon AWS for a reason :)
Apparently , modern Linux distributions are built straight for virtualization and cloud deployment. Fedora 22 Workstation (live image) failed to start properly on two different computers I tried and only managed to start in vmware workstation.
Don’t know much about Live Image … I downloaded the DVD ISO and used it to install Fedora 22 on quite a few machines. Works like a charm without any virtualization.
I must be getting old then :-) So far failed to find Fedora Workstation full DVD on their site (getfedora dot org and torrents dot fedoraproject dot org). There’s only 1.3GB live image + ‘netinstall images’.
Hmm … confusing :) I much prefer when there was only 32/64-bit separation…. Yeah, I think I got this one – Fedora-Live-Workstation-i686-22 and burned it to DVD.
Must be Lenovo’s fault then. Or, fedora liveUSB creator’s :-)
I’ve done it on HP and Lenovo. LiveUSB is a pain in the butt, so maybe that. :)
Nothing beats good’ole DVD or vmware + mounted DVD image :-)
For workstations – yup. For servers, especially for batches of them, net install + kickstarter = awesomeness! :)
MSlownux :)