Linux - Box of Cables

Microsoft

Stop quoting Steve Ballmer

Not "Developers Developers Developers", that one is great. The cancer one.

WSL

Azure Linux "Desktop": A Build 2026 mashup of wslc, WinUI Reactor, and Azure Linux 4.0

A nifty Windows app that boots a full Linux desktop in a window, wiring together the wslc container API, WinUI Reactor, Azure Linux 4.0, .NET 10, with a pinch of nostalgia.

WSL

Build a Custom WSL 2 Kernel in 2026

Building a custom WSL 2 kernel in 2026 with the WSL system distro (Azure Linux) as a clean, root, throwaway build environment. KVM now ships enabled, so this covers the reasons that still matter, plus the new modules VHDX deployment step.

Linux

Azure Linux 4.0 is Microsoft’s first general-purpose Linux

Microsoft’s in-house Linux, the distribution that grew out of CBL-Mariner, just hit public preview as a general-purpose cloud OS you can run on any Azure VM and coming soon to WSL.

WSL

wslc: A native Linux container runtime for Windows

wslc brings native OCI-compatible Linux containers to WSL: a Docker-compatible CLI, GPU passthrough via CDI, a full C/WinRT/C# SDK, and a plugin API that lets Windows applications mount folders, spawn processes, and react to container lifecycle events as native Windows handles.

WSL

WSL 2 is getting faster Windows file system access

From DrvFs in WSL 1 to Plan 9 to virtiofs, cross-OS file access in WSL 2 has improved with each generation. A new change gives each virtio device its own dedicated DMA pool, removing the last major contention point on the virtiofs path.