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Microsoft's Azure Linux 3.0 Adds 64K Kernel Option, NFTables & Intel E800 Networking

Microsoft engineers rounded out their work week by releasing Azure Linux 3.0.20241203 on Friday evening as the newest monthly installment for their in-house Linux distribution.

Microsoft engineers rounded out their work week by releasing Azure Linux 3.0.20241203 on Friday evening as the newest monthly installment for their in-house Linux distribution. A 64K page size can help greatly with performance on ARM servers especially compared to 4K. Some of the other changes in this Azure Linux 3.0 update include Dracut adjustments, Lua support within fluent-bit, enabling signature verification of kexec'ed kernels, and a number of package updates to fix known security issues.

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