Microsoft Linux is not what you thought (or hoped) it would be

Microsoft Linux has arrived, but it's not what you imagined. Jack Wallen shares his take on this new arrival called CBL-Mariner and even shows you how to build it.

When I woke this morning, I admit I checked outside to see if pigs were flying, or if it was raining a plague of locusts. Neither of those things was happening, and yet the impossible still happened. Said impossible? It was finally revealed that Microsoft does, in fact, have its own flavor of Linux.

Before you get too excited about this, we're not talking about an operating system that would eventually supplant Windows as the de facto standard desktop platform. I won't lie... that's exactly what I was hoping for. Or at the least, I was hoping Microsoft would realize the Linux kernel might be a better option to serve as the foundation of Windows.

Instead, what Microsoft has released is called CBL-Mariner. If you've been paying enough attention to what's going on around the IT landscape, you can probably make a pretty solid guess as to what purpose CBL-Mariner serves. 

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