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Needs [Dec 2017] added.

Original announcement: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-linux-2-modern-stabl...

Do the optimizations actually matter in the real world? I'm wondering if switching our CI runners from Ubuntu to Amazon Linux would speed up our build/test pipelines.

Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15919789

71 points by hgontijo 11 months ago | 26 comments

What is the point in posting this?

Lots of people host on AWS and thus might want to leverage this as the underlying OS?

Yeah, but it’s been a year. It’s like posting “Ubuntu 17.10 is available!”

SystemD support is a god-send.

Amazon Linux 2