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“Seriously? Linux?”
Absolutely. Windows Azure will run pretty much anything you can run as x86/x64 virtual machines. And Microsoft even supports several “flavors” of Linux running in our cloud.
In today’s part eleven of our “31 Days of Servers in the Cloud”, my friend Keith Mayer gives you the run-down, and even delivers a step-by-step on how to build an Apache web server running in Windows Azure.
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