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call me old fashioned isn't a general purpose OS one that runs on any hardware and set up? and is certified with hardware vendors for full backing and support?
by froh 4mo ago
call me old fashioned isn't a general purpose OS one that runs on any hardware and set up? and is certified with hardware vendors for full backing and support?
all this says is: "MS now provides a unified Linux from WSL to the MS cloud. just like what you got w/ SUSE RH canonical up to now. but without any support outside the MS stack.", right?
or am I missing something?
- PacificSpecific 4mo agoDon't worry you aren't. Luckily no one will use this distro day to day
- haydenbarnes 4mo agoISV certification is coming. On-prem hardware support would be interesting, wouldn't it?
- froh 4mo agowithout certification of other clouds and any hardware this is not general purpose. their plan might however be a Micro-Windows, which only boots the hyper-v, which then runs that Linux. that move would leverage the Microsoft Windows hardware certification.
- steve1977 4mo agoI'd say old fashioned Linux would come without any certification or support.
- froh 4mo agoI didn't mean DIY / Linux from scratch. and I meant where I come from a general purpose OS is for any purpose, not just to run it on a very specific stack. SUSE - Find Certified Hardware Products https://www.suse.com/yesCertified/home https://www.suse.com/yesCertified/home similar pages exist for RH and canonical but then Windows also is a general purpose OS. hm. what if MS strategizes on their hyper-v as hypervisor, with windows as control Panel and all payload on their Azure Linux? popcorn time?
- hsbauauvhabzb 4mo agoAFAIK it isn’t a declared term my left shoe is my first general purpose operating system, if i toss an esp32 in there i can probably call it linux too.
- starkgoose 4mo agoI fell like this could be a move to purposefully mislead and confuse "Normies" of what to expect from "general purpose Linux" means.
- Scroll_Swe 4mo agoComputing changed fast. I'm lucky I bought my new gaming PC last year. Hopefully not my last but the overlords want us to rent forever.