[jmspring]

How is this different from Amazon Linux - the base for EC2/etc?

[pests]

Does amazon make an OS like Windows? Did Amazon wage a multi year long war against Linux and the open source philosophy in its history?

[jajuuka]

It's super weird people are bitter about things that happened almost two decades ago. Much less there was no war. I think Ballmer said some mean words about Linux and Microsoft sued Lindows for infringement and won. After the rename to Linspire Microsoft actually worked with them on compatibility. The whole Windows v Linux "war" is completely contrived by some fans of Linux as some holy war.

[jmspring]

Linux for their respective cloud resources. Neither is intended to really be a public distro.

[paulddraper]

No.

Amazon wasn’t even a twinkle in its father’s eye.

[jaboutboul]

Both are Fedora/Red Hat based.