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Re:Microsoft / JARVIS: a system to connect LLMs with ML comm... by VWWHFSfQ on Sunday April 09, 2023 @09:53AM (#35502746)
Microsoft themselves may be committed to their own distro, but their customers are overwhelmingly committed to Ubuntu as it's powering the majority of client workloads on Azure.
Re:Microsoft / JARVIS: a system to connect LLMs with ML comm... by p_l on Sunday April 09, 2023 @10:01AM (#35502809)
Microsoft also offers another server distro, though they are moving to externa providers for support (Flatcar)
Re:Microsoft / JARVIS: a system to connect LLMs with ML comm... by ta1243 on Sunday April 09, 2023 @04:11PM (#35506013)
It's amazing that 25 years from the halloween documents, and 20 years on from http://mslinux.org/, that's the case.

Also amazing how much of mslinux.org is true

Internet Integration -- well yes every machine has an ip stack

More Swap Space -- apparently swap is a good thing for performance

new type-ahead command-line features -- sounds a little like copilot

Graphical Point-And-Click RPM Management -- certainly what desktop linux has

Plug-and-Play For Linux devices which make adding and removing peripherals a snap -- well yes, things like udev

crapd -- insert pottering based commentary

The space vehicle will be running our newest product, SpacePod 2004 -- in reality it's linux that tends to run on mars

Microsoft is working to incorporate the well known "Start" button from the Windows Platform into X Windows' Gnome interface -- I believe Start has been removed from Windows now? I have something very similar in the top corner of my xfce screen though

Re:Microsoft / JARVIS: a system to connect LLMs with ML comm... by voidfunc on Sunday April 09, 2023 @04:48PM (#35506340)
This will change quickly. Microsoft shops often go with whatever Microsoft is touting eventually. The .NET ecosystem is very much like this.

So yea, I don't see any future where Microsoft buys Canonical vs just slowly migrating customers onto Mariner.