alt Hacker News> It could also be general purpose for what you can run on it.
Yeah of course, it's a Linux distribution. But feels like a marketing push when multiple people suddenly go "oh yeah Microsoft building a general purpose Linux distribution" when that's not what's happening. So what if it isn't general purpose and built purposefully for Azure? It doesn't remove anything, just being more accurate with how it's being marketed.
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derefr • today at 5:20 PM
> Yeah of course, it's a Linux distribution.
That is not a given. There are Linux distributions that run anywhere but are not general-purpose. For example, the various "immutable" Linux distros that exist solely to be used as Kubernetes nodes to host containers.
When you create a VM on these cloud platforms the categories are like "general purpose, high memory, high cpu, high gpu" and there's various types of VMs to select from. They are simply using the terminology that DevOps folks use when discussing instance types. General purpose just means it's not tuned to favor anything in particular. Don't overthink it. You are not the audience.