Oracle Linux 8 Now Available From The Microsoft Store

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Oracle Linux 8 Now Available From The Microsoft Store

For use with Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), Oracle this week released Oracle Linux 8.5 onto the Microsoft Store...

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Oracle-Linux-8-Microsoft-Store

[skeevy420]

Hmmm....

Meanwhile the RGB driver for my CPU's heat sync has a 118.17 MB download

[brad0]

Hmmm....

Meanwhile the RGB driver for my CPU's heat sync has a 118.17 MB download

Sounds about the size of a slimmed down installer (since installers are so insanely bloated nowadays)

[shmerl]

"Linux available from Microsoft store".

The title reads like some dystopian novel, lol.

[middy]

"Linux available from Microsoft store".

The title reads like some dystopian novel, lol.

microsoft is working hard to turn linux into an app

[JackLilhammers]

microsoft is working hard to turn linux into an app

Maybe people more expert than me can weigh in, but I'd say that Linux already is, and without Microsoft having to work all that hard.
I mean, most of Linux instances are containers...

[cynic]

Maybe people more expert than me can weigh in, but I'd say that Linux already is, and without Microsoft having to work all that hard.
I mean, most of Linux instances are containers...

yes, they're containerized Linux instances running on... Linux anyway

[Vistaus]

Sounds about the size of a slimmed down installer (since installers are so insanely bloated nowadays)

Finally something Oracle did right, then?

[Vistaus]

yes, they're containerized Linux instances running on... Linux anyway

I feel a new ‘Yo dawg!’ might be coming within the next 24 hours.

[skeevy420]

I feel a new ‘Yo dawg!’ might be coming within the next 24 hours.

Screw it:

Yo dawg! I heard you liked Linux so I installed an Ubuntu Docker container in an Arch Linux chroot in a FreeBSD jail in an Oracle Linux WSL2 container in a Windows 11 QEMU image in a Windows 10 VMWare image in CentOS Stream KVM in Rocky Linux.