A Look into CBL-Mariner, Microsoft’s Internal Linux Distribution

Re:A Look into CBL-Mariner, Microsoft’s Internal Linux Distr... by 0xbadcafebee on Sunday July 11, 2021 @11:13PM (#27806559)

Hopefully not using the Linux kernel though. It changes too much, stuff gets dropped too often, it's buggy, it's insecure as hell, there no test framework. It releases features quickly, sure. But I kind of hate using it, both on my desktop and in production. Would rather BSD, but then you don't get features.

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Re:A Look into CBL-Mariner, Microsoft’s Internal Linux Distr... by yjftsjthsd-h on Monday July 12, 2021 @02:41AM (#27807726)

> It changes too much, stuff gets dropped too often,

Stable features that are visible from user space? That would be extremely surprising.

> it's buggy, it's insecure as hell

It's really not. It has bugs, even security bugs, but no more than any other modern kernel.

> there no test framework.

https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/dev-tools/testing-ove... plus assorted fuzzing and integration testing

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Re:A Look into CBL-Mariner, Microsoft’s Internal Linux Distr... by GoOnThenDoTell on Monday July 12, 2021 @12:05AM (#27806939)

They can use an LTS kernel, and I hear there is some work in the android world to give LTS kernels a stablish driver interface

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