Microsoft ships Virtual Machines additions for Linux -- Where's Ubuntu in the list

[Nils Kassube]

Tommy Trussell wrote:
> On 11/1/07, Conrad Knauer <atheoi at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 11/1/07, Jonathan Jesse <jjesse at iserv.net> wrote:
> > > http://www.microsoft.com/technet/virtualserver/downloads/linuxguest
> > >support.mspx the following supported Linux Guest Operating Systems
> > > are all Red Hat and SuSE based.  How come Ubuntu's not in the list?
> >
> > Maybe for the same reason Fedora, openSUSE, Mandriva, etc. aren't
> > supported? (I'm guessing lack of business user share, or at least
> > lack of business user share as perceived by Microsoft)
>
> which distros paid the Microsoft "protection" fee to leave them alone?

At least not Red Hat.


Nils