Linux
Hola nova: The Cuban government Linux distro
Looking for a more revolutionary distro? A look at Nova, the Linux distro from the Cuban government.
Hayden Barnes
Vintage
Running Windows 2000 on WSL
Sometimes you just want to run FORTRAN PowerStation.
Windows
Dual-Boot Windows and Windows Insiders Builds Without Re-Partitioning
Run Windows 10 Insider Fast Ring builds on bare metal without risking your daily driver. No partitioning required.
Open Source
Toxicity in Open Source
There is a very small but noisy contingent in open source that is far from open, responds with vitriolic hate to other viewpoints, engages in the worst forms of gatekeeping, and are generally very toxic people.
Archived
Job Update
I am pleased to announce that I have accepted a position as a Developer Advocate on Ubuntu for WSL at Canonical. Pengwin and its parent company Whitewater Foundry will remain an independent open source company. Carlos Ramirez, a long-time Pengwin core contributor, will be assuming the leadership role at Whitewater
Open Source
Open Sourcing DAP: Legal Outreach Software
DAP was a project at my old law firm to provide outreach to consumers being sued by debt trolls. DAP was written in Python, used an SQLite Database, interacted with an IBM mainframe and two web APIs to send information to consumers.
Linux
Automated Snaps of Nim Using GitHub Actions
Nim is a compiled, garbage-collected systems programming language with a design that focuses on efficiency, expressiveness, and elegance.
Windows Subsystem for Linux
Getting Started with Ubuntu Core on Hyper-V using WSL
Ubuntu Core is a tiny, transactional version of Ubuntu Linux from Canonical. Use WSL to convert a KVM image of Ubuntu Core and boot in Hyper-V on Windows.
Vintage
The one in which I kind of get Corel Linux 1.2 to work 21 years later.
With the increasing adoption of Microsoft's Office, in 1999 Corel took a swing at Microsoft's other core business, Windows, with Corel Linux.
Linux
That time the Windows API broke Debian Stable
winapi-rs is a Rust crate that provides raw foreign function interface (FFI) bindings to the entire Windows API from Rust. This gives Rust applications on Windows direct access to the Windows API. This dramatically improves the functionality and performance of Rust on Windows. The developer, Peter Atashian, gathered each API
Virtualization
hyper-v-gallery: Creating a custom Hyper-V Quick Create gallery with Linux and *BSD live ISOs
Above is Quick Create for Hyper-V, the virtualization platform built into Windows 10. You can find Quick Create for Hyper-V by searching for "quick create" in Windows 10: The Quick Create gallery in Hyper-V is powered by a .json on Microsoft.com. This is the default Windows 10
Vintage
A Tour of Trinity Desktop Environment
TDE is notable to me for it's speed, visual design, stability, and it's vast eco-system of well-designed and functional user software.