On Sun, 2015-08-16 at 13:41 +1000, Dmitry Smirnov wrote: [...] > I found it very disappointing that I had to defend Debian against Ubuntu > which is stealing our audience by somehow arranging more favourable hosting > conditions on Azure. I'm not talking about availability of OS images. > According to "Information for Non-Endorsed Distributions" [1] > > "The Azure platform SLA applies to virtual machines running the Linux OS > only when one of the endorsed distributions [2] is used". > > So naturally my client is concerned that by choosing Debian they won't have > benefits of SLA like they would have if they choose Ubuntu because the latter > is "endorsed". [...] No stable release of Debian includes the Hyper-V guest agents, which I believe are strongly recommended. They are now packaged in unstable (hyperv-daemons built from linux -tools source), and could possible be backported to jessie if they are that important. However, I think some more work is needed to integrate them properly. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings [W]e found...that it wasn't as easy to get programs right as we had thought. ... I realized that a large part of my life from then on was going to be spent in finding mistakes in my own programs. - Maurice Wilkes, 1949
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