Microsoft Pushes Out Big February Update For CBL-Mariner 2.0 Linux Distro

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Microsoft Pushes Out Big February Update For CBL-Mariner 2.0 Linux Distro

Microsoft's in-house CBL-Mariner Linux distribution has routinely seen weekly-ish updates to this open-source code used within Azure, WSL, and other areas of the Redmond company. But it's been one month since the prior CBL-Mariner 2.0 release... That changed Saturday night with a shiny new release...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/CBL-Mariner-2.0-Linux-Big-Feb

[ATFx]

Redmond company.

Redmond Corporation, Substantial Difference between a Company & Corporation.
Accurately, they're a Mega Monopoly Redmond Corporation.

[muncrief]

It makes much more sense to run Windows as a passthrough VM under Linux KVM than it does Linux under WSL. You give up nothing running passthough KVM, but a lot with WSL.

[carguello2]

I guess they are sticking with Linux 5.15 because they are sponsoring the "Cloud Hypervisor" project.

For required KVM functionality and adequate performance the recommended host kernel version is 5.13. The majority of the CI currently tests with kernel version 5.15.

Nice project by the way. The performance and flexibility are great.

It makes much more sense to run Windows as a passthrough VM under Linux KVM than it does Linux under WSL

With the right hardware, yes. You have all DevOps tools at your disposal, Docker, Grafana, K8s, Traefik, etc.

Though running Linux through WLS would make sense if you need HyperV and Azure Virtual Desktops and/or corporate software running on Windows.