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Microsoft lets Azure Linux 4 out of the cloud in downloadable ISO form

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Fedora-derived server distro is ready for local testing, but production deployments should wait

Microsoft's Fedora-derived Azure Linux 4 has hit a new milestone: you can now run it outside of Azure. The project's GitHub page now offers ISO file downloads in addition to its Azure Marketplace page.

We covered the Azure Linux 4 announcement in May, and it is still in preview. You should not deploy this in production just yet. The availability of ISO files for installation in a local VM is a welcome step forward, though. They are not where you might expect to find them for a FOSS project on GitHub, under Releases – there are just some kernel builds there. You need to scroll down to the section headed Using Azure Linux and then expand the section headed ISO Installer. Both x86-64 and Arm64 images are available.

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