Linus Torvalds has accepted Microsoft's Hyper-V upgrade which should lead to Linux booting up faster than before in the very near future.
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Microsoft wants its Windows users to try Linux. The company recently published a rather helpful guide on how to download and get started, and choose between the various Linux distros out there.
Microsoft is improving Hyper-V support in the upcoming Linux kernel version 6.6 so that both AMD and Intel processors will benefit. The upgrade mainly pertains to improved guest support.
Microsoft is adding support for XFS as a root file system on Linux. The change was announced with the latest update to CBL-Mariner which is Microsoft's Linux-based OS for Azure 1P.
Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) in the Microsoft Store has ditched the "Preview" tag and is now generally available for both Windows 10 and Windows 11. It has also become the default WSL experience.
Microsoft is working to add nested virtualization or nested Hyper-V support to Linux. Earlier today, a series of patches were sent out by a senior Microsoft engineer regarding the change.
Microsoft and Canonical have jointly announced today the availability of native .NET 6 on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. The announcement promises smaller packages, timely security updates, and more.
Microsoft has announced that it is suspending the SQL Server on Windows Containers Beta program due to ecosystem challenges and usage patterns. It has recommended the Linux counterpart instead.
"Microsoft and the Linux Foundation may have had our disagreements in the past,", the Foundation's Jim Zemlin said today, "but one thing we've always agreed on is that developers are super-important."