> It is a general purpose server and container distribution.

My god, it isn't, where are people getting that from? The previous submission (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48407499) from the very same author got it wrong both times?

Microsoft themselves call it "Purpose-Built for Azure", why cannot the other Microsoft/Windows salesmen also call it that instead of "general purpose server and container distribution"?

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hparadiz 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Both of those things are true in different ways.

Purpose built for azure probably means integration with azure meta data APIs and kernel specific tweaks for the hardware.

It could also be general purpose for what you can run on it.

Basically it's a curated distro. Not complicated or anything different from what AWS and GCE are doing.

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embedding-shape 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> It could also be general purpose for what you can run on it.

Yeah of course, it's a Linux distribution. But feels like a marketing push when multiple people suddenly go "oh yeah Microsoft building a general purpose Linux distribution" when that's not what's happening. So what if it isn't general purpose and built purposefully for Azure? It doesn't remove anything, just being more accurate with how it's being marketed.

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hparadiz 2 hours ago | parent [-]

When you create a VM on these cloud platforms the categories are like "general purpose, high memory, high cpu, high gpu" and there's various types of VMs to select from. They are simply using the terminology that DevOps folks use when discussing instance types. General purpose just means it's not tuned to favor anything in particular. Don't overthink it. You are not the audience.

	▲	embedding-shape 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> General purpose just means it's not tuned to favor anything in particular Agreed, that's why it doesn't make sense to call this "general purpose", since it's specifically tuned in favor of Azure: > Azure Linux was built with that principle in mind: a single, Microsoft-supported Linux foundation designed to work across every Azure compute surface [...] with a predictable update cadence designed around Azure infrastructure It's quite literally tuned for Azure and Microsoft...

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yndoendo 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Your statement is contradicting with stating it was Purposely built for Azure.

Someone would have to make a Ubuntu equivalent and use Azure Linux as the base to turn it into a general purpose Linux OS.

Personally, I don't trust Microsoft and their Linux distro with how they Enshitified Windows OS and all of their other software products. Add in the fact that Microsoft likes to multi-count CVEs, per distro, instead of the actual flaw to try and make Windows OS look better when it comes to security.

Microsoft is a bad actor.