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Microsoft's First Azure Hosted Service Is Powered By Linux
jones_supa (887896) writes "Canonical, through John Zannos, VP Cloud Alliances, has proudly announced that the first ever Microsoft Azure hosted service will be powered by Ubuntu Linux. This piece of news comes from the Strata + Hadoop World Conference, which takes place this week in California. The fact of the matter is that the news came from Microsoft who announced the preview of Azure HDInsight (an Apache Hadoop-based hosted service) on Ubuntu clusters yesterday at the said event. This is definitely great news for Canonical, as their operating system is getting recognized for being extremely reliable when handling Big Data. Ubuntu is now the leading cloud and scale-out Linux-based operating system."
The headline should read... The first Microsoft Azure hosted service to run Linux
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Misleading headline. They offer Windows or Linux. Ubuntu is what they chose for their Linux instances.
"...the preview of Azure HDInsight (an Apache Hadoop-based hosted service)..."
Anybody wanna take odds on whether this gets nicknamed "Hindsight"?
I figure by 2030 or so my 6-digit UID will be something to brag about.
Yeah, this seems to be more about Canonical positioning themselves as a serious enterprise-Linux competitor against Red Hat. "Ubuntu is now the leading cloud and scale-out Linux-based operating system" sounds like a marketing blurb aimed at RHEL.
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I sell open source software and I'm starting to see Ubuntu more frequently as a platform.
But I do wonder how much money Ubuntu makes from the coud services?
It has been embraced. So you know what comes next.
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>"Ubuntu is now the leading cloud and scale-out Linux-based operating system"
More than CentOS/RHEL? I would want to see real numbers to back up that claim or at least a clarification of their definitions.
Who is writing these? Azure has run Windows since its inception. This isn't a new thing.
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I'm genuinely curious.
20 comments in and no mention of hell freezing over? We've come a long way folks, we've come a long way.
Horrible fscking grammar is what it is...
Does this mean that Ubuntu is a guest OS on a cloud powered by Windows?
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It should be noted that there are things for which Linux is simply better suited for whatever reason, and in that case Microsoft does not shy away from that, either. In particular, have a look at Microsoft job postings for PyCon. These are all for backend development, where backend is Linux/Docker, for the simple reason that 1) there's no Windows equivalent to lightweight containers, and 2) IPython users generally expect a Unix-like environment with shell etc.
(Full disclosure: I am a Microsoft employee on the same team that posted these job openings.)
So they of windows based windows or linux based windows a.k.a. Ubuntu.
I(OMG Micro$haft using Linux, tee hee Windoze sucks..whoohoo it's 1998!).
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As a not-microsoft person, I didn't have a clue what the hell azure was / is supposed to be. I assume that's what they are calling their hosting service? If so, then obviously they'll want to offer a linux option if they are going to compete, since windows hosting is nowhere near as important.
About 15 years ago, when a large Windows (NT) project was having trouble getting DNS to work properly at scale on NT, the SEs went to the source to ask how Microsoft themselves made it work. The sheepish answer was *cough*unix*cough*
After reading the headline I was scanning for either the announcements of lawsuits or the mysterious death of Canonical executives. No juicy tidbits to investigate, just a broken summary.
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I'm having trouble understanding why anybody with even moderate experience would want to run Ubuntu.
The process was: Install Ubuntu, Install KDE apps, do my work with KDE apps, under Gnome because Ubuntu's actually KDE desktop was only about 70% functional. And Kubuntu was only slightly better at say 80%.
If I'm going to use KDE, I might as well use the whole thing, which I prefer to Gnome's lets hide functionality and remove functionality from the UI philosophy--and unity is worse; I'm going to use a system with good KDE integration.
What's so special about Ubuntu that makes it "extremely reliable when handling Big Data" that is not present in other modern Linux distros? Or is Ubuntu not linux?
Hotmail used to run on Solaris.
(Full disclosure: I am a Microsoft employee on the same team that posted these job openings.)
BASH installed on Windows by default, plz
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
If I were in charge of that, you'd have it like yesterday :)
On a more serious note, at this point I wouldn't put it into the "never gonna happen" bucket anymore, just based on all the things I've seen the company do in the past year that were in that bucket two years before. But either way, it will take a long time - bash (and any Unix shell, really) really expects a lot of Unixisms from the environment that it runs it. Basically, I don't think you can get a proper *sh without having a proper POSIX layer underneath. And all we have today is Cygwin, which is basically a giant hack.
On the other hand, command prompt is getting some long needed love in Win10, and hopefully beyond. And when they asked about what people want from that effort, the requests for things Unix ranked pretty high on the list. These guys have said that they'll pay close attention to feedback, so I hope they'll deliver on that promise.
And all we have today is Cygwin, which is basically a giant hack.
Close enough, man.
On the other hand, command prompt is getting some long needed love [windows.com] in Win10,
That's great. I wondered why the cmd prompt UI is so bad.....from that article it looks like the hackiness around it goes deep. Maybe that's why powershell doesn't have < ?
btw do you know a good tutorial for getting a console application to generate powershell objects?
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
I don't think you can have an arbitrary console app generate streams of objects. You basically have to write a cmdlet for that, there isn't really any on-the-wire protocol for stdout that you could just generate and have it magically parsed into objects.
(I actually dislike PS for that reason - the idea of structured data on the wire is great and a big improvement over plain text streams, but I think it would be better served by something like JSON over regular stdin/out/err. I think someone actually started working on an experimental Unix shell that does that, but I can't find it now or even remember the name.)
What about <, do you know why that doesn't work in Powershell?
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
I have no idea. Perhaps they might have felt it to be redundant with the ability to do cat foo | ..., but it sounds like a weak argument for not providing the conventional sugar for the same, especially given that they did it in many other cases.
oh yeah, that's a good workaround.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
Its because "pipe" is NOT a stream of data... It is a binary stream...
It has to be interpreted first - translated into a stream of data.
Thus PS cannot handle something simple like redirection.
And SSH too please. Come on, this is 1990 any more!
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once they've done so, systemd is one domino they can kick over and the other distros fall down before them.
you hate to discuss it, but really imo systemd will be the downfall of Linux, leading to a mass exodus into BSD and WINDOWS.
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He's a mouthpiece, only barely in control of his own gibbering idiocy spewing mouth, MS have been offering HDinsight for quite a while now, he's obviously just woken up after a long hit of the crack pipe.
Let's not all forget that MS's initial web servers (back when the internet was shiny and new) ran BSDI's offering.
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