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Microsoft Has Built a Linux Distro

Posted by Soulskill on from the wait-what dept.

jbernardo writes: Microsoft has built a Linux distro, and is using it for their Azure data centers. From their blog post: "It is a cross-platform modular operating system for data center networking built on Linux." Apparently, the existing SDN (Software Defined Network) implementations didn't fit Microsoft's plans for the ACS (Azure Cloud Switch), so they decided to roll their own infrastructure. No explanation why they settled on Linux, though — could it be that there is no Windows variant that would fit the bill? In other news, Lucifer has been heard complaining of the sudden cold.

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  1. MS uses what works by danbuter · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's in-house and they aren't trying to sell it. No reason not to use Linux.

    1. Re:MS uses what works by bug1 · · Score: 5, Funny

      No reason not to use Linux.

      Except that its un-American, and causes cancer...

  2. This proves Linux sucks by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    The Total Cost of Ownership is so high, that only a company as rich as Microsoft can use it for their own business.

  3. Re:Wrong choice by coolmoe2 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Sooo tired of FBSD blowhards claiming that it is the right choice for everything. Linux has a very large developer base and is mature enough to give all of the BSD's a run for their money. Linux is everywhere now days from the data center to your smartphone. Your claims that somebody should be fired for using it is just plain childish.

  4. If it doesn't use systemd, I'd like to use it. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I'm not joking around here. If Microsoft put out a Linux distro that didn't use systemd, with some guarantee that it never would, I'd very much consider using it. It sounds absolutely crazy, but things have gotten so fucked up in the Linux ecosystem lately that the thought of Microsoft putting out the best Linux distro has actually become plausible.

    1. Re:If it doesn't use systemd, I'd like to use it. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      We will never use use systemd. We have replaced it by svhost.exe (Microsoft insider).

  5. Re:Satan by Tx · · Score: 5, Funny

    Linux? Pah! There's a reason why Microsoft owns WindowsPowersHell.org.

    --
    Oh no... it's the future.
  6. So not publically not eating your own dog food by Viol8 · · Score: 5, Informative

    ..is fine, right? When you're trying to sell Windows to the public as a one size fits all OS yet its apparently not good enough to run the network of their own Premier cloud service thats not a problem?

    Give me a break, this has embarrassing U-turn written all over it.