Getting Started Creating a Linux Desktop App in Visual Studio using Avalonia and WSL
Build cross-platform GUI apps for WIndows and Linux using C# and .NET using Avalonia in Visual Studio.
Latest
Windows Dev Drive Benchmarks
Putting Windows Dev Drive through it's paces on the Windows Dev Kit 2023.
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.
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?
Building custom WSL distro images with Podman
Use Podman on Windows to build custom WSL distro images.
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.
Creating A Lightweight Windows Container Dev Environment without Docker Desktop
Working with Windows Containers without Docker Desktop from PowerShell.
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
How Oracle saved rpm on WSL 1
Oracle to the rescue.
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.
Windows Subsystem for Linux
Build An Accelerated KVM Guest Custom Kernel for WSL 2 - 2022 Edition
Updated, simpler guide for building a custom Linux kernel for WSL 2 optimized for running nested KVM guests.
Open Source
Bill Gates was right
Gates' 'Open Letter to Hobbyists' wasn't a declaration of war against open source. It is a key foundation of it.
Linux
Building a custom kernel for WSL 2 on openSUSE
How to build a custom kernel for WSL 2 on openSUSE. Now with more PowerShell.
Editorial
Feel the fear. Do it anyway.
I want to let you all in on a secret.
Linux
Troubleshooting GUI Linux apps on openSUSE on WSLg
Troubleshooting common issues with Linux GUI apps on openSUSE on WSL.
Linux
Install openSUSE Tumbleweed on WSL
How to install the official openSUSE Tumbleweed images for WSL directly from the Open Build Service to enjoy this rolling distribution on Windows.
Linux
Trying Windows Server 2022 Insider Preview on openSUSE Tumbleweed
Installing Windows Server 2022 Insider Preview in GNOME Boxes on openSUSE Tumbleweed and configuring it with its own IP address on the LAN with YaST.
Linux
Deploying Rancher on k3s on WSL 2
Running k3s server on WSL2 and then installing Rancher on it.
Open Source
Experimenting with flux2 on microk8s
In which I try to get flux2 working on microk8s...
Virtualization
Microsoft's Virtual Machine Hub: Hyper-V Server 2019
Getting to know Hyper-V Server by running Windows 8.1 and Ubuntu 21.04 on Hyper-V Server 2019...on Hyper-V on Windows 10 Pro.
Editorial
Why you should care about Section 230
Section 230 opponents want to punish social media sites for offending their Dear Leader and are willing to burn down online culture as we know it to do so.
Editorial
No, Microsoft is not rebasing Windows to Linux
The choice will not really be Windows or Linux, it will be whether you boot Hyper-V or KVM first, and Windows and Ubuntu stacks will be tuned to run well on the other.