Microsoft's First Azure Hosted Service Is Powered By Linux 66
jones_supa (887896) writes "Canonical, through John Zannos, VP Cloud Alliances, has proudly announced that the first ever Microsoft Azure hosted service will be powered by Ubuntu Linux. This piece of news comes from the Strata + Hadoop World Conference, which takes place this week in California. The fact of the matter is that the news came from Microsoft who announced the preview of Azure HDInsight (an Apache Hadoop-based hosted service) on Ubuntu clusters yesterday at the said event. This is definitely great news for Canonical, as their operating system is getting recognized for being extremely reliable when handling Big Data. Ubuntu is now the leading cloud and scale-out Linux-based operating system."
Re:Wow (Score:5, Informative)
Misleading headline. They offer Windows or Linux. Ubuntu is what they chose for their Linux instances.
Re:Wow (Score:4, Insightful)
Yeah, this seems to be more about Canonical positioning themselves as a serious enterprise-Linux competitor against Red Hat. "Ubuntu is now the leading cloud and scale-out Linux-based operating system" sounds like a marketing blurb aimed at RHEL.
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I sell open source software and I'm starting to see Ubuntu more frequently as a platform.
But I do wonder how much money Ubuntu makes from the coud services?
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Horrible fscking grammar is what it is...
Does this mean that Ubuntu is a guest OS on a cloud powered by Windows?
Re:Wow (Score:5, Insightful)
It should be noted that there are things for which Linux is simply better suited for whatever reason, and in that case Microsoft does not shy away from that, either. In particular, have a look at Microsoft job postings for PyCon [pycon.org]. These are all for backend development, where backend is Linux/Docker, for the simple reason that 1) there's no Windows equivalent to lightweight containers, and 2) IPython users generally expect a Unix-like environment with shell etc.
(Full disclosure: I am a Microsoft employee on the same team that posted these job openings.)
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(Full disclosure: I am a Microsoft employee on the same team that posted these job openings.)
BASH installed on Windows by default, plz
Re:Wow (Score:4, Interesting)
If I were in charge of that, you'd have it like yesterday :)
On a more serious note, at this point I wouldn't put it into the "never gonna happen" bucket anymore, just based on all the things I've seen the company do in the past year that were in that bucket two years before. But either way, it will take a long time - bash (and any Unix shell, really) really expects a lot of Unixisms from the environment that it runs it. Basically, I don't think you can get a proper *sh without having a proper POSIX layer underneath. And all we have today is Cygwin, which is basically a giant hack.
On the other hand, command prompt is getting some long needed love [windows.com] in Win10, and hopefully beyond. And when they asked about what people want [uservoice.com] from that effort, the requests for things [uservoice.com] Unix [uservoice.com] ranked pretty high on the list. These guys have said that they'll pay close attention to feedback, so I hope they'll deliver on that promise.
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And all we have today is Cygwin, which is basically a giant hack.
Close enough, man.
On the other hand, command prompt is getting some long needed love [windows.com] in Win10,
That's great. I wondered why the cmd prompt UI is so bad.....from that article it looks like the hackiness around it goes deep. Maybe that's why powershell doesn't have < ?
btw do you know a good tutorial for getting a console application to generate powershell objects?
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I don't think you can have an arbitrary console app generate streams of objects. You basically have to write a cmdlet for that, there isn't really any on-the-wire protocol for stdout that you could just generate and have it magically parsed into objects.
(I actually dislike PS for that reason - the idea of structured data on the wire is great and a big improvement over plain text streams, but I think it would be better served by something like JSON over regular stdin/out/err. I think someone actually started
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I have no idea. Perhaps they might have felt it to be redundant with the ability to do cat foo | ..., but it sounds like a weak argument for not providing the conventional sugar for the same, especially given that they did it in many other cases.
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Vote for it here [uservoice.com].
Misleading Headline (Score:5, Insightful)
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I was looking for.. (Score:3)
After reading the headline I was scanning for either the announcements of lawsuits or the mysterious death of Canonical executives. No juicy tidbits to investigate, just a broken summary.
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Actually it sounds like the Headline should read:
"Microsoft's First Azure Service powered by Linux and Windows"
From Microsoft:
Select Linux or Windows clusters when deploying Big Data workloads into Microsoft Azure. With Windows, leverage existing Windows based code, including .NET, to scale over all of your data in Azure. With Linux, customers can more easily move existing Hadoop workloads into the cloud and incorporate additional Big Data components which can run in the service. By offering choice for Windows and Linux clusters, Microsoft is enhancing flexibility for customers to create insight from the massive amounts of data being created in the cloud with the OS of their choice.
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I thought this was old news. i.e.
Microsoft is offering a Ubuntu 14.04 in a VM to run Minecraft [microsoft.com]
Fight of the year: SystemD vs Microsoft (Score:5, Funny)
Roll up, roll up,
See the former champion fight the young contender!
Who will consume who?
Will Microsoft wipe out SystemD?
Or will "the Borg" finally meet its match?
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Just ctrl-alt-del and end task. That should help.
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Embrace, extend.....
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Worst product name this year (Score:4, Funny)
Anybody wanna take odds on whether this gets nicknamed "Hindsight"?
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I certainly would not give odds on it. Hindsight was how i read it the first several times before realizing there wasn't enough letters. I bet it was similar for you too.
That being said, i hope canonical doesn't follow suit with a couple other distros and change their focus to predominately their corporate offerings. Mandriva did that and now i cannot remember the names of the forks and don't have time to test them anyways. RedHat started down that path but seems to have put the brakes on before it caused t
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Why is it the worst possible name? Its supposed to give you a brand new view into your data - so in essence it is giving you the benefit of hindsight.
Ubuntu is going to die. (Score:2, Interesting)
Leading? (Score:5, Interesting)
>"Ubuntu is now the leading cloud and scale-out Linux-based operating system"
More than CentOS/RHEL? I would want to see real numbers to back up that claim or at least a clarification of their definitions.
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+1
Amazon's Linux probably has Ubuntu beat ... forever?
So wrong (Score:2)
Re:So wrong (Score:4, Informative)
Did you mean to write, "Azure has run Linux"?
That isn't quite true either. Azure ran Linux since it had VM IaaS, but it didn't have that "since inception", it appeared a little bit later.
Either way, this news is something different. Previously, if you wanted to run Linux on Azure, you had to run it in a VM, and Microsoft only managed the VM host. Here, this is a hosted service that runs on Linux, where Microsoft is actually managing those Linux VMs for you.
Amazing (Score:2)
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Hell [google.nl] isn't all that far from Detroit and I have been hearing they have quite a problem with, like, 2 meters of snow this year.
So yeah. Hell froze over.
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I(OMG Micro$haft using Linux, tee hee Windoze sucks..whoohoo it's 1998!).
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sometimes you can't eat your own dogfood (Score:3, Interesting)
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Yep. At that time Microsoft were still running Hotmail on FreeBSD because they were struggling to migrate it to Windows.
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You are describing the desktop version of Ubuntu. I can assure you that the server version of Ubuntu does not have much KDE or Gnome installed. I work for a very large internet company based in San Jose, CA, you have heard of us, and we have thousands of Ubuntu servers and I don't see much KDE or Gnome except for a couple of libraries.
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Oddly, if I want what *I* want on a machine nowadays, things have turned on their heads.
On headless servers I run Ubuntu LTS - it means that when I want to suck in a new daemon, it's as simple as apt-get install, it installs all necessary dependencies (so though it might pick up KDE libs, it's unlikely to pick up X itself or anything else at all) and it all just works in a secure default config. And updates can happen automatically.
On desktops, where I need to choose what happens to each pixel of my deskto
Ubuntu is not Linux? (Score:1)
What's so special about Ubuntu that makes it "extremely reliable when handling Big Data" that is not present in other modern Linux distros? Or is Ubuntu not linux?
Not the first time... (Score:1)
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