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its probably a silly question, but why are people using microsoft to fetch debian packages?
by jijji 5y ago
its probably a silly question, but why are people using microsoft to fetch debian packages?
- deleted 5y ago[deleted]
- krautsourced 5y agoI'd assume they host some of their own packages plus it's probably the default for the Azure space. (just an assumption)
- fapjacks 5y agoMicrosoft repos were silently added to Raspberry Pi OS earlier this year, ostensibly "in case anyone wants to use VSCode" and definitely not just as a super shitty way of adding telemetry to every Raspberry Pi OS install without asking the user if they were cool with this.
- userbinator 5y agoMicrosoft's packages of its own software for Debian.
- minedwiz 5y agoFor example, my team's services run on Debian, but are .NET Core-based, so our dev boxes & CI machines rely on Microsoft deb repos.