[4.0] Azure Linux 4.0 Development

[flora-taagen]

[ohault]

Is it here we can discuss about what we would like for Azure Linux 4.0 ?

[flora-taagen]

Hi @ohault this is a great place to start that discussion—we’d love to hear your suggestions!

We’ll also be hosting a community call on January 22nd if you’d like to share your ideas there:

• Community Call 1/22/2026 from 8-9am (PST) Click to join

Looping in @Poorvi5 who is working on 4.0 development.

[ohault]

Hi @ohault this is a great place to start that discussion—we’d love to hear your suggestions!

We’ll also be hosting a community call on January 22nd if you’d like to share your ideas there:

• Community Call 1/22/2026 from 8-9am (PST) Click to join

Looping in @Poorvi5 who is working on 4.0 development.

Hi @flora-taagen, somehow similar to Roadmap ID #6540, for .NET project dev/ops testing this would be wonderful to have an almost ready to use minimal Azure linux host image for running .NET project under CNCF containers (not under Kubernetes). This prebuild and/or almost ready to use image(s) should target Baremetal (X64, ARM, including RPi), Hyper-V, XEN (XCP-ng, XenServer) , Proxmox, VirtualBox, ....