Microsoft use Debian to host their Linux repository

[compact-mac]

An interesting find from the other day.

I noticed that Microsoft have an APT package repository and saw this at the root index: Nginx default install page.

It seems that they are using Debian and Nginx to host their Linux package repository! I would have expected them to use IIS to make a point that Windows and Linux can coexist and support each other happily. Perhaps I should email them to get on that!

[Stannieman]

Or it is Windows but it tells you it's Debian. This is sometimes done to mislead hackers.

But yeah, most likely it is indeed Debian.

[rbshep]

It probably actually is a Debian userland, but running under Hyper-V (the kernel might be their own a la WSL). I believe that's how they host Linux VPS's on their Azure cloud.

Does anyone really bother to change headers and default error pages these days?

[compact-mac]

It probably actually is a Debian userland, but running under Hyper-V (the kernel might be their own a la WSL). I believe that's how they host Linux VPS's on their Azure cloud.

Yeah Azure is Windows-based, as you'd expect. It uses a customised Hyper-V instance to virtualise Linux. So this being on their own cloud is probably a good guess. If we knew the range of static IPv4 addresses allocated to Azure, this hypothesis could be confirmed.

Does anyone really bother to change headers and default error pages these days?

If they had a sense of humour they'd change it to one of those old IE "The page cannot be displayed" screens.