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.
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I'm running for the .NET Foundation Board
I am on the ballot for the 2026 .NET Foundation Board election. Why I am running, what the Foundation is recruiting for this cycle, and what I would bring: partnerships across the Microsoft and open source line, nonprofit governance, and a long record in the .NET and WSL communities.
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. Here is why that is a real step in Microsoft’s Linux journey, not just a version bump.
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 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.