• Re: Microsoft called Linux a cancer, now ships ... Azure Linux

    From Paul@nospam@needed.invalid to alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.comp.os.windows-11,alt.os.linux.mint,alt.windows7.general on Wed Jul 1 21:34:28 2026
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    On Wed, 7/1/2026 7:21 PM, greybeard wrote:
    On 02/07/2026 03:56, german newsgroups wrote:
    Le 01/07/2026 |a 12:59, Mr. Man-wai Chang a |-crit-a:

    Microsoft called Linux a cancer, now ships its own free distro that's nothing like Ubuntu or Fedora
    <https://www.windowslatest.com/2026/06/29/microsoft-called-linux-a-cancer-now-ships-its-own-free-distro-thats-nothing-like-ubuntu-or-fedora/>

    <https://www.hkepc.com/26139/>

    azure linux
    <https://www.google.com/search?q=azure+linux>

    i don't why...they are a lot of distros !

    Complete with secure boot & all the spyware ???

    "How Azure Linux 4.0 differs from Ubuntu, Fedora, and RHEL

    The most important thing to understand about Azure Linux 4.0 is
    what it is not. It is not a general-purpose distribution like
    Ubuntu or Fedora that you install on a laptop, set up a desktop,
    and use as your daily driver. There is no graphical interface.
    There is no audio stack. There is no desktop environment.
    The base image does not even ship with a pager like less.
    It installs only what cloud and server workloads need, nothing more.

    Base image size ~300 MB
    "

    it is unlikely to need an article written about it.

    Paul
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  • From Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?=@ldo@nz.invalid to alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.comp.os.windows-11,alt.os.linux.mint,alt.windows7.general on Thu Jul 2 03:57:19 2026
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    On Wed, 1 Jul 2026 21:34:28 -0400, Paul wrote:

    "How Azure Linux 4.0 differs from Ubuntu, Fedora, and RHEL

    The base image does not even ship with a pager like less.

    It seems to me a pager is an important part of being able to examine
    config files and log files.
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