Open Source
The GitHub Copilot Lawsuit Threatens Open Source and Human Progress
The vague complaints of the Copilot plaintiffs are nothing compared to the damage to free software and human progress if they won.
Hayden Barnes
Linux
Microsoft's CBL-Delridge is 404, long live CBL-Mariner
Microsoft is increasingly standardizing on its in-house CBL-Mariner Linux distribution. Is this Microsoft Linux?
Windows Subsystem for Linux
Building custom WSL distro images with Podman
Use Podman on Windows to build custom WSL distro images.
Archived
Determined to Keep Learning
Having been 'in the trenches' as an engineering manager at Rancher Labs, I am very happy to return to my roots of open source community building at Determined AI.
Archived
My Time at the Ranch
As my time at Rancher Labs ends, I reflect on the teams I have had the opportunity to lead and the amazing things those teams have accomplished.
Windows Subsystem for Linux
Running a massively scalable CUDA-accelerated AI/ML lab on WSL 2 with Determined
Getting a scalable AI/ML model training environment set up and running on WSL 2, with Docker Desktop and CUDA GPU compute.
Windows
Creating A Lightweight Windows Container Dev Environment without Docker Desktop
Working with Windows Containers without Docker Desktop from PowerShell.
Windows Subsystem for Linux
Building CBL-Delridge, Microsoft's other Linux distro
Microsoft has another Linux distro you probably haven't heard of. You can easily build it and even import it into WSL.
February 1 Live Stream: Trying (and failing) to install openSUSE and SmartOS on Vultr
Windows Subsystem for Linux
How Oracle saved rpm on WSL 1
Oracle to the rescue.
Linux
Installing Retro Home on the Raspberry Pi 400
Let's celebrate New Years and install Retro Home on a Raspberry Pi 400 and play some games.
Installing RISC OS on the Raspberry Pi 400
Let's learn about the origins of ARM and RISC OS at Acorn, download and flash a RISC OS image for the Pi 400 using another ARM device ironically, tangent into BeOS and Haiku, and then explore the unique UI of RISC OS.