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No it's not. It's for tuned for Azure. Nobody is running this outside of their compute environment.
by codycharris 4mo ago
No it's not. It's for tuned for Azure. Nobody is running this outside of their compute environment.
- osigurdson 4mo agoYou may be right, its possible however that people running on Azure may use it locally for testing.
- VincePlatt 4mo agoI was curious to see what it would be like to run this under WLS. I'm guessing we'll get our chance at some point.
- haydenbarnes 4mo agoYou get a sense of it now. Azure Linux 3.0 is the base for the WSL system distro, there all the WSLg (GUI) and now the wslc plumbing happens. It's ephemeral, but you can drop in and look around with wsl --system --user root. An official WSL image of Azure Linux 4.0 is coming in a few weeks that you'll be able to install with wsl.exe --install Azure...(I'm not sure the exact name).
- voidfunc 4mo agoI know internal folks running AzLinux 3.0 under WSL and it's fine. Not a lot of reasons to do it vs just use Fedora. I'd expect similar for AzLinux 4.0. It's not tuned for day-to-day WSL centric developer use tho.
- jraph 4mo agoYeah, a general purpose distro would come with a desktop environment and you'd be able to run it on your PC as your main OS. Calling this general purpose is so misleading. Of course describing reality in titles would have the inconvenience of causing fewer clicks to these articles. The title on HN could be updated though.
- gunalx 4mo agoAccording to [1] the guidelines explicitly say to keep editorializing to a specified minimum, unless it is spam. Dont know it this title would allow editorialising [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- jraph 4mo agoThey say "please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize". I think it's misleading and linkbait. The mods would decide what to use instead, this could be "Azure Linux 4.0, Microsoft's Linux distribution for its cloud" or something like this.
- graemep 4mo agoEspecially given the article says this: > It is minimal on purpose. Azure Linux ships only what cloud and server workloads need. There is no desktop, no GUI, no general-purpose sprawl.
- hmry 4mo agoYep sure does. Love an article that contradicts its own title. Bonus points for that sentence sounding extremely AI-generated.
- stuaxo 4mo agoWhen he said "general purpose" I totally imagined a desktop environment.
- rswail 4mo agoIt's general purpose in that it can run any Linux application in numerous different ways, containerized, as a VM, or on specific bare hardware. You and Microsoft are using the word "general purpose" to mean different things. This is not generally compatible with different hardware. Nor does it include things that could be considered applications, like desktop environments etc. It's not designed to be run by an end user on a desktop.
- znpy 4mo agoI don’t know really. Amazon AL2023 can be used outside aws for example, and people might want the same distro on-prem as the cloud. It’s not the average joe/jane though.
- b33j0r 4mo agoYou point to a better timeline. Sometimes—when desperately alone—I imagine. If only the guy who was destined to close a disk operating system deal with IBM hadn’t been goofing around with his plane that fateful day. We would all be using lisp machines, running smalltalk on microkernels that put the HURD to shame. Just imagine: instead of backslashes and drive letters, we’d have parens. Endless, syntactically-valid parens. Or CP/M, probably that. But can it run doom?
- psychoslave 4mo agoGlad that at least we avoided that much more parentheses. Where is our PL any kind of bracket and other rococo ornamental symbol is at most totally optional?
- hathawsh 4mo agoSorry to break it to you, but on that timeline, the good things got poisoned. IBM enhanced Lisp with Enterprise Ready features like Spreadsheet Macro Builder, Microsoft took over development of Smalltalk and morphed it into BASIC 2.0, and the HURD community lost a bizarre copyright lawsuit. Fortunately for those folks, an intrepid hacker in the 90s saw some of the interesting ideas in MS-DOS and rebuilt it as LS-DOS. Today, most of their servers and mobile phones run LS-DOS or similar.
- __patchbit__ 4mo agoLSD-OS would be an AI core unsupported by runtime and operating system that cascades streams of consciousness in a portable cartridge smartphone form factor until mounted on an embodiment to become unified and coherent.
- b33j0r 4mo agoAh. A common (and understandable) misconception. LSD-OS doesn’t enhance anything in the UX, it just removes the filters that prevent you from seeing reality, man. Some confuse this with LDS-OS, which makes the user weirdly and unquestionably `nice` by only accepting inputs from protected mode.
- tomkarho 4mo agoI would imagine MS employees might (or be made to) either directly or through wsl.