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.
Open Source Microsoft and Open Source: An unofficial timeline The profound cultural transformation towards open source did not happen overnight at Microsoft. This is an unofficial timeline of Microsoft's embrace of open source.
Open Source The Myth and Promise of Open Source When it comes to the legal foundations of open source, there is no spoon.
Vintage iPad Launch Day: April 3, 2010 Behind the scenes photos by an Apple employee at the launch of the iPad on April 3, 2010.
Linux Automate Ghost updates with systemd on Ubuntu Secure your self-hosted Ghost blog with Ubuntu Livepatch, unattended upgrades, and systemd.
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.
Editorial The Legal Profession Needs To Die Lawyers don't need to learn to code. They need to stop putting humans in cages.
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.
Windows Subsystem for Linux 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
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
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
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.
Windows Subsystem for Linux Visual Guide to Trying WSL2 on Hyper-V A great way to dip your toes into WSL2 is using Hyper-V, the virtualization hypervisor built into Windows 10 Pro and Enterprise and a Windows Insider build ISO.
Vintage What is Awesome-UNIX? Awesome lists are curated lists of the best links on a topic. They are maintained by experts and hosted on the code sharing site GitHub. While Awesome lists were initially software development-centric, they
Open Source What is an indie open-source startup? I often describe Whitewater Foundry, the corporate entity formed around Pengwin and our other products and services, as an indie open-source startup. What does this mean? Indie Pengwin is independent. We are not