Miscellaneous Why you should care about Section 230 Trying to 'reign in' big tech by opening them up to frivolous lawsuits is dumb.
Linux 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.
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.
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.
