Box of Cables

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.

Linux

How to test Ubuntu Focal Fossa on Hyper-V

A build of Ubuntu 20.04 LTS beta for the Hyper-V Quick Create gallery is now available. To test, I recommend installing the 19.10 image from the Hyper-V Quick

Vintage Computing

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

How to test Ubuntu Focal Fossa on WSL: Reporting Bugs

How to triage and report bugs properly on Ubuntu on WSL.

Linux

How to test Ubuntu Focal Fossa on WSL: Sideload a fresh build

Side-load an image of Focal Fossa on WSL to test the upcoming 20.04 LTS release of Ubuntu.

WSL

How to test Ubuntu Focal Fossa on WSL: Upgrade an existing installation

Backup your Bionic working environment and then upgrade to Focal.

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.

Vintage Computing

Running Windows 2000 on WSL

Sometimes you just want to run FORTRAN PowerStation.

Miscellaneous

The Legal Profession Needs To Die

Lawyers don't need to learn to code. They need to stop putting humans in cages.

WSL

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.

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

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.

WSL

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.

Open Source

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.

Open Source

Deep Dive: That time the Windows API broke Debian Stable

winapi-rs is a Rust crate that provides raw foreign function interface bindings to the entire Windows API from Rust. This gives Rust applications on Windows direct access to the Windows

Open Source

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

Linux

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.

WSL

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.

Open Source

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

My Professional Resume

General Professional SkillsProject management.Entrepreneurship and business development.Strategic planning.Public speaking.Media, government, and community relations.Policy development and compliance.Technology SkillsExpert in Linux/UNIX command-line tools, scripting, and operating system/container build automation.Intermediate skills in continuous integration/continuous development and application

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.