Significant improvements to Microsoft's in-house Linux may follow
Microsoft's in-house professional networking site is moving to Microsoft's in-house Linux. This could mean that big changes are coming for the former CBL-Mariner distro., is the visible sign of what we suspect has been a massive internal engineering effort.
However, with the shift to CentOS Stream, users felt uncertain about the project's direction and the timeline for updates. This uncertainty created some concerns about the reliability and support of CentOS as an operating system.has caused industry-wide consternation and even outrage, but few would have pegged Microsoft as one of the companies affected.
Some details hint at what we suspect were probably major deployment headaches. LinkedIn was using DKMS to build drivers into its kernels on the fly, which is a common use case and implies that Nvidia cards are involved. However, the Azure cloud insists on signed kernels, so Microsoft has built a repository of signed kernels incorporating all the hardware in use.
Microsoft has a long history of"eating its own dogfood," even when the exercise of moving acquisitions to its own stack has been painful. ItBack then, Windows NT 4 Server simply wasn't up to the task. It wasn't until Windows Server 2000 that it managed toThe result of this major undertaking was significant improvements in the abilities, compatibility, and also stability of Windows Server."Dogfooding" is an important effort.
Microsoft is doing the right thing here, shouldering the burden, and considerable cost, of moving its own internal infrastructure to its own products. This can only be good for Azure Linux, and indeed, for Azure in general. Its fairly obscure andUK competition regulator's cloud probe remedies have global implicationsMicrosoft to stop telling investors about peformance of server products
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