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Azure Linux 4.0 is Microsoft's first general-purpose Linux

by Hayden Barnes boxofcables.dev published 2026-06-035 min read

Microsoft’s in-house Linux, the distribution that grew out of CBL-Mariner, just hit public preview as a general-purpose cloud OS you can run on any Azure VM and coming soon to WSL.

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