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Microsoft Releases Azure Linux 3.0 Preview (www.phoronix.com)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

Seems to be based mostly on Fedora by reading the Readme.

I would like to know if it does use systemd and/or other redhat technologies.

In the readme they mention Qt, does anyone know what DE do they use?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I don't think it ships with a desktop environment by default; I think they're just referring to the Qt framework. If it is mentioning a desktop environment - it's probably LXQt.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I know Microsoft gave Gnome a donation of 10.000$ because they use Ubuntu (which use Gnome) and inside the repo (inside SPECS folder) I've seen gnome-commons to build gnoem stuff.

But yes, this is probably a server distro without a DE.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

If you follow the links, you'll see that it's essentially a new name for/ release of CBL-Mariner. from the GitHub readme:

CBL-Mariner is an internal Linux distribution for Microsoft’s cloud infrastructure and edge products and services.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

It does use systemd. It uses SELinux and dnf as well. It seems to be patterned in Fedora or CentOS Stream. There is no desktop environment.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I'd wager it uses systemd considering Lennart Poettering works for Microsoft.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I’d wager

Just look it up instead of making wild guesses: https://github.com/microsoft/azurelinux/tree/3.0-dev/SPECS/systemd