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Microsoft Adds Intel's Clear Linux Open-Source OS To Azure Market (networkworld.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the friends-with-benefits dept.

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.

4 of 24 comments (clear)

  1. no thanks by FudRucker · · Score: 2

    i will stick with slackware, and keep an eye on the other surviving non-systemd distros

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  2. Linux OS tuned for Intel hardware on emulated hdwr by Locutus · · Score: 2

    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

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  3. Re:Anyone use it? by Gadget_Guy · · Score: 3, Informative

    Any reason Microsoft picked Intel's chosen distro, as opposed to one from Oracle, Debian, Red Hat or Suse?

    This is one of those RTFA moments. They are adding Intel's distro to their selection. It is not the only one. From the article:

    Microsoft already supports CentOS, CoreOS, Debian, Oracle Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Enterprise Linux, OpenSUSE and Ubuntu in Azure instances.

    The operating system that run Azure is actually called Microsoft Azure. It is specifically designed to run virtual machines and other cloud services.

  4. Re:Linux OS tuned for Intel hardware on emulated h by mccalli · · Score: 2

    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.