From bleepingcomputer.com
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This week, Microsoft’s Linux package repositories suffered an hours-long outage, followed by performance issues spanning over a day.
Users relying on the packages.microsoft.com repository to pull Linux distributions, including Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS, OpenSUSE, and Fedora received errors.
Microsoft engineers have acknowledged the issue and are working towards a resolution.