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Microsoft: Linux Is the Top Operating System on Azure Today
Once, Azure was a cloud platform dedicated to Windows. These days, the company tests over 1,000 Linux distributions a month just to ensure their customer apps run smoothly on Azure.
But it was customer demand, rather than Richard Stallman ‘s stern disapproval, that brought Linus Torvalds’ project to prominence in the Microsoft cloud. Many will choose the auto-update option, so, to be safe, Azure will test the updates before they go live on user machines to ensure they don’t break systems. The Azure Linux Fleet is running millions of VMs across thousands of SKUs, with each SKU addressing a specific configuration or optimization for workloads: GPUs, storage, and high-performance computing.
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