Microsoft recently released it's own distro of Linux call CBL-Mariner.
I recently grabbed an iso and threw it up as a VM in my test environment, and my first thoughts are "meh"
It seems to be somewhat based on Arch Linux pr sorta a cross with that and Debian, although I would have personally preferred it to be a little more debian like.
Not much in the way of packages yet, but some that work on other distros may work ok on it.
Documentation is a bit lacking so far, so had to dig a bit to find the NIC setting so I could make it multi homed.
By now the iso is likely available a few places, I used one I had found directly on Arch's site.
I think this move makes sense for them, and who knows I look forward to them writing some tools to be released possibly in future versions of windows to possibly manage this distro, or maybe a cpanel type application that could be used, or maybe some packages that could be used to manage windows servers.
The first attempt to install it using the graphical interface failed, but my guess is that it may have been looking for better graphics or even a gpu, which I don't use a passthrough on a vm enviornment. The 2nd attempt I just used the command line and it went fine.
Not completely sure the direction this will take, their official statement at github is
This will likely mean most packages or tools developed will lean more heavily toward managing Azure and Azure cloud apps.CBL-Mariner is an internal Linux distribution for Microsoft’s cloud infrastructure and edge products and services. CBL-Mariner is designed to provide a consistent platform for these devices and services and will enhance Microsoft’s ability to stay current on Linux updates
Rick
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