> 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...