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Microsoft Adds Intel's Clear Linux Open-Source OS To Azure Market (networkworld.com)
JG0LD quotes a report from Network World: Microsoft announced today that it has added support for the Intel-backed Clear Linux distribution in instances for its Azure public cloud platform. It's the latest in a lengthy string of Linux distributions to become available on the company's Azure cloud.
BrianFagioli adds from BetaNews: In other words, users of the company's cloud platform can set up a virtual machine using this distribution in addition to existing Linux-based operating systems. "Today, we're excited to announce the availability of Clear Linux OS for Intel Architecture in Azure Marketplace. Clear Linux OS is a free, open-source Linux distribution built from the ground up for cloud and data center environments and tuned to maximize the performance and value of Intel architecture. Microsoft Azure is the first public cloud provider to offer Clear Linux, and we're really excited about what it means for Linux users in the cloud and the community at large," says Jose Miguel Parrella, Open Source Product Manager, Microsoft.
Of course this is someone who runs FreeBSD off of Azure :-)
Oddly I find FreeBSD the best non MS on their cloud and on Hyper-V while Linux seems better on Amazon
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i will stick with slackware, and keep an eye on the other surviving non-systemd distros
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I think you mean "systemic" as if it were systematic they'd be extinct by now.
Either way you are retarded and everyone would be better off if you just kill yourself.
I did.
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Are not Cloud VM's isolating and emulating hardware so to what end is running Intel's hardware tuned Linux on MS Azure of any benefit?
Directly on the iron might seem interesting but then I wonder what's the difference compared to say Gentoo.
Microsoft and Intel have lots of money so we get a press release I guess.
LoB
"Anyone who stands out in the middle of a road looks like roadkill to me." --Linus
Not to be confused with https://www.clearos.com/ the rebranded of Clark Connect distro.
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Perhaps it has the easiest experience improvement tools available for Microsoft? Surely MS needs to get easy access to their users passwords and files, how else could they monet..improve the rich cloud ecosystem horizontal experience?.
They're not emulating, they're virtualising. Direct passthrough to the hardware via a hypervisor API is possible, so it's possible that there is advantage to running an Intel-tuned VM on an Intel hardware platform.
Obivously this is EEE!!
Everything Microsoft does is evil, even when they do the things we chastised them for not doing before!
They're not emulated. They are confined by hardware virtualisation (which is in many ways like another tier of process memory protection). Virtualised apps run on the bare metal processor, just as userland processes do. The only difference is that the kernel the userland processes on a virtualised host sees is also like a userland process, so far as the bare-metal processor is concerned.
John_Chalisque
ah, that's right since they added VM hardware to the x86 CPU's about 10 or so years ago. Thanks for the clarification. I guess I've been doing too much ARM development recently.
"Anyone who stands out in the middle of a road looks like roadkill to me." --Linus
thanks, I'd forgot about the virtualization mechanisms added to the x86 CPUs over the past few years.
LoB
"Anyone who stands out in the middle of a road looks like roadkill to me." --Linus
Neither of TFA's or the /. summary provide a link to Clear Linux. WTF?!?!
Here it is: https://clearlinux.org/
I get why sites like Network World and BetaNews avoid linking to the subject of their articles. Heaven forbid a reader click the link and leave their site, possibly never to return! Won't somebody please think about the advertisers! Reasonable financial motives for bad behavior doesn't change the fact that it's bad behavior.
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Just like in Demolition Man: 'All restaurants are Taco Bell now'. Microsoft wants to annex and subvert ANY OS that isn't Windows, make it their own, so they can OWN ALL COMPUTERS, EVERYWHERE. Don't let it happen!