Microsoft called Linux a cancer, now ships its own free distro that’s nothing like Ubuntu or Fedora

Microsoft shipped Azure Linux 4.0 at Build 2026, its own open-source Linux distribution derived from Fedora. It has no desktop, no GUI, and runs only on Azure. Here is what it actually is, how it compares to Ubuntu and Fedora, and why Microsoft built its own Linux distro in the first place. The post Microsoft called Linux a cancer, now ships its own free distro that’s nothing like Ubuntu or Fedora appeared first on Windows Latest