This week, Microsoft continues to want to take on this tour Linux Love Train: The Windows giant is attempting to join the official mailing list of Linux distributions (linux-distros).
linux-distros mailing list purpose is to report security issues privately, coordination and discussion not yet available to the public by the Linux distributions are used; and oss-security mailing list is something that has been used to spread open, or things have been determined list.
Sasha Levin said he is the Redmond giant (refer to Microsoft) are "Linux kernel hacker", he applied to join the mailing list for his employer. Non-public discussion, if approved would allow Microsoft to participate in this ongoing security concerns about vulnerabilities, patches, and the open source kernel and associated code among. These discussions as soon as possible to determine the problem and coordinate the handling and deployment in public before a patch repair is essential.
In order to prove that Microsoft has qualified to become like Ubuntu, Debian and SUSE and other members of the same, he and Microsoft's Azure Sphere WSL 2 as an example of building a similar release.
Azure Sphere is an attempt to edge computing Microsoft, which itself is running Linux on an Arm's hardware. However, it has been in a preview stage. WSL 2 Also in preview stage, it is based on the Linux 4.19 kernel version adjusted, and appeared in the beginning of June this year, Windows Insiders program. Levin estimated it public offering in 2020 (so it will not be officially released and increasingly mysterious synchronous version of Windows 10 19H2.)
Levin continues to emphasize there are many users of Microsoft does not use Windows, Linux version is not based on other people's release, of course, it also contributed to the community.
Levin really is an active member of the community. Look at Linux 5.0.15 kernel update log, together with his full Linux Foundation Fellow Greg Kroah-Hartman signature. Therefore, to see Kroah-Hartman Levin guarantee is not surprising: Kroah-Hartman pointed out that Levin has full write access to the stable kernel tree, and praised Microsoft's current application.
Microsoft will join the ranks of Google's Chrome OS team and Red Hat Linux giants. Penguins appeared worried about the number of cloud service providers is the second Linux world once carefree "all free" is a sign of the company quietly, but the best note, another kind, loving software giant Oracle also members on the mailing list. Do not forget: most of the Linux kernel development work is done by the agency in the work of engineers such as IBM, such as IBM's Red Hat, Intel and the Linux Foundation.
This can really see that Microsoft has been very different before, because Microsoft is careful to protect their software secret was to describe Linux as cancer and famous, but it now has its own release, and therefore eligible to join special for dealing with security issues affecting open source software mailing lists.
"See here is that Microsoft wants to get an early security alerts on Linux," open source pioneer Bruce Perens said Thursday in a telephone interview. "That's why they requested the inclusion of this mailing list. They added it as a Linux distributor, and this is their way. Microsoft obviously do a lot of things in terms of Linux, they have a responsibility like other Linux distributors, like a quick fix known security vulnerabilities. "
Perens said that if large-scale cloud service providers have not done so, he would expect them to do the same. "I think Chrome OS also has the same problem," he said.
via: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/06/27/microsoft_linux_distro_list/
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