Microsoft has posted Azure Linux 4 ISO files in the project’s GitHub repository, giving administrators a local test path for the company’s Azure-optimized Linux distribution outside Azure. ISO files ...

You can now install Azure Linux on your own server. Azure Linux may prove a competitor to mainstream enterprise Linux distros. Is Windows Server long for this world ...

Microsoft has released Azure Linux 4.0 in public preview earlier this month, introducing a redesigned architecture, updated software stack, and tighter integration with the Fedora ecosystem. The ...

Author and project developer Hayden Barnes has built Azure Linux Desktop as an experimental Windows app that boots a full Azure Linux desktop inside a window. Barnes’s June 6 prototype puts ...

Microsoft recently announced Azure Linux 4.0 and Azure Container Linux at Open Source Summit North America 2026 in Minneapolis. Azure Linux 4.0 is a Fedora-based, general-purpose server distribution ...

Microsoft used the Open Source Summit North America 2026 event to position open-source infrastructure and hardened Linux distributions as foundational components for emerging AI-native and agentic ...

The Linux Kernel Crypto API provides kernel-level cryptographic operations accessible to both kernel modules and user-space applications through AF_ALG sockets. User-space applications communicate ...

At the Open Source Summit North America this week, Microsoft announced two major milestones for Linux workloads on Azure: Azure Linux 4.0 running on Azure virtual machines and the general availability ...

Azure Linux 4.0 expands Microsoft’s Linux strategy for secure AI and server workloads. Azure Container Linux offers hardened, lightweight infrastructure for Azure containers and regulated enterprises.

Microsoft released its first full Linux distro: Azure Linux 4.0. Azure Linux ix split into Azure Container Linux and the virtual machine edition. Microsoft effectively admits that it's a de facto ...

A previously undocumented Linux implant codenamed Quasar Linux RAT (QLNX) is targeting developers' systems to establish a silent foothold as well as facilitate a broad range of post-compromise ...

At Microsoft Digital, the company’s IT organization, we’re reimagining how engineers, product managers, and program managers work. Microsoft Azure DevOps (ADO) is our company’s end-to-end software ...