> 1. It's general purpose in that it is designed to be used to deliver any application software FWIW, it's only the HN title and this article that calls this n

> 1. It's general purpose in that it is designed to be used to deliver any application software FWIW, it's only the HN title and this article that calls this new distribution "general-purpose". Microsoft themselves say that this the distribution is "Purpose-Built for Azure" (https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/linuxandopensourceblog/announcing-azure-linux-4-0-purpose-built-for-azure-now-in-public-preview/4524267 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/linuxandopensourceb...), I'm not sure how the author got it wrong.