Flatcar Linux takes the 520, drives up to Redmond: Microsoft acquires Kinvolk

Microsoft has acquired Kinvolk, a German open source company whose best known project is Flatcar Container Linux, a distribution designed for container workloads. Kinvolk was founded in 2015 in Berlin and its first project was building a container runtime, called rkt, for Container Linux (formerly CoreOS), a lightweight Linux …

[Borg.King]

Right image, wrong direction.

The picture on the home page is definitely SR 520, but it's looking out towards the floating bridge over Lake Washington, towards Seattle, and away from Redmond.

[amacater]

Connected with Microsoft's own Linux for Azure/WSL?

https://github.com/microsoft/CBL-Mariner - Microsoft's Linux that they're using for GUI apps on WSL2 is RPM based. Maybe this helps them with this and with containers on Azure? Tying to RPM - well, somebody has to, despite the fact that the world runs Ubuntu, Debian and over 200 derivatives while there are about 15 RPM based distributions, I think.

[Tim Anderson]

Re: Connected with Microsoft's own Linux for Azure/WSL?

AWS Linux is rpm too. Said to be based on Fedora.

[Tom Chiverton 1]

Embrace ✔️

Extend ♻️

Extinguish ♻️

[EvilGardenGnome]

I kind of think we need to shift this meme a little. Doesn't seem to work quite this way with the Beast of Redmond anymore.

Maybe: Acquire, Acclimate, Audacity!

The last one since they either screw it up horribly, turn it into something it was never meant to be, or leave it alone enough to let it grow (then fsck it up).