I’m Adam Conway, an Irish technology fanatic with a BSc in Computer Science and I'm XDA’s Lead Technical Editor. My Bachelor’s thesis was conducted on the viability of benchmarking the non-functional ...

Razer is applying for Ubuntu Linux certification for the Blade 18 laptop, according to Phoronix. The system uses the RZ09-0582 model number and is currently going through the certification process.

Microsoft has officially unveiled Azure Linux 4.0, the latest version of its open-source Linux distribution designed for cloud infrastructure, enterprise workloads, and modern data centers. Formerly ...

When my friend and Directions on Microsoft‘s editor-in-chief Mary Jo Foley wrote in late May that Azure Linux 4.0 would be available for bare-metal servers and virtual machines (VMs), I thought, “I’m ...

Microsoft has released Azure Linux 4.0 as a public preview. The new version of its in-house Linux distribution features a modernized software base with Kernel 6.18 LTS, dnf5, glibc 2.42, OpenSSL 3.5, ...

Today, I spent a few hours playing with Microsoft Azure Linux. A sentence that, 20 years ago, would probably have belonged only in a meme. But, as they say, change is the only constant. I say this ...

An open-source Linux distribution built and optimized for Azure, with sources derived from Fedora Linux. Azure Linux provides a secured, reliable operating system for virtual machines, containers, and ...

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 brought the 4.0 Linux release into public testing for virtual machines on June 2, expanding the in-house distribution into a customer-selectable cloud image. That is a broader role than ...

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 ...

A month ago, we reported that Microsoft was targeting Fedora as the base for the next version of its Azure Linux, designed to support the company’s cloud infrastructure. And now this has officially ...