Microsoft Adds Intel's Clear Linux Operating System to Its Azure Cloud Offering | Linux Today

Microsoft Adds Intel’s Clear Linux Operating System to Its Azure Cloud Offering

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Marius Nestor
Jan 18, 2017

Designed by Intel to offer users a highly optimized and performant computer OS for desktops and servers alike, Clear Linux is an open-source operating system that you can freely download and use for personal an commercial purposes. It’s specifically engineered to maximize the value and performance of your Intel PC. Intel’s Clear Linux OS is the latest GNU/Linux distribution to become available on Microsoft’s Azure public cloud platform, where customer can choose to run many other popular Linux-based operating systems, including Ubuntu, openSUSE, Debian, CentOS, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Enterprise Linux, as well as Oracle Linux.

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