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Microsoft Azure Linux 3.0 Update Pushes Additions For Intel, AMD & Arm
Microsoft overnight released the newest version of their Azure Linux 3.0 in-house Linux distribution that is used by a variety of internal services at the company as well as external customers.
On the Intel side the In-Field Scan(IFS) support is enabled for helping to verify the quality of the server CPU silicon pre-production or as an ongoing basis. The Azure Linux 3.0.20241101 release also adds Fedora SBAT entries to GRUB2, enables NFTables in IPTables, drops the "noxsaves" parameter from the command line in the UKI kernel image, and updates a variety of packages due to security issues and other bugs. Their Linux 6.6 LTS kernel has been updated along with PHP, the NVIDIA driver, libcxx, cURL, GDB, and a variety of other packages.
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