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Getting Started Creating a Linux Desktop App in Visual Studio using Avalonia and WSL

Build cross-platform GUI apps for WIndows and Linux using C# and .NET using Avalonia in Visual Studio.

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Windows Dev Drive Benchmarks

Putting Windows Dev Drive through it's paces on the Windows Dev Kit 2023.

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Microsoft's CBL-Delridge is 404, long live CBL-Mariner

Microsoft is increasingly standardizing on its in-house CBL-Mariner Linux distribution. Is this Microsoft Linux?

Windows Subsystem for Linux

Building custom WSL distro images with Podman

Use Podman on Windows to build custom WSL distro images.

Windows Subsystem for Linux

Building CBL-Delridge, Microsoft's other Linux distro

Microsoft has another Linux distro you probably haven't heard of. You can easily build it and even import it into WSL.

Windows Subsystem for Linux

How Oracle saved rpm on WSL 1

Oracle to the rescue.

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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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Building a custom kernel for WSL 2 on openSUSE

How to build a custom kernel for WSL 2 on openSUSE. Now with more PowerShell.

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Troubleshooting GUI Linux apps on openSUSE on WSLg

Troubleshooting common issues with Linux GUI apps on openSUSE on WSL.

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Install openSUSE Tumbleweed on WSL

How to install the official openSUSE Tumbleweed images for WSL directly from the Open Build Service to enjoy this rolling distribution on Windows.

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Trying Windows Server 2022 Insider Preview on openSUSE Tumbleweed

Installing Windows Server 2022 Insider Preview in GNOME Boxes on openSUSE Tumbleweed and configuring it with its own IP address on the LAN with YaST.

Open Source

The Next Chapter: Setting Sail

I am excited to 'go green' 🦎, play a role in the new SUSE, get more involved in the Kubernetes community, and continue pushing the boundaries of OS interoperability.

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Deploying Rancher on k3s on WSL 2

Running k3s server on WSL2 and then installing Rancher on it.

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Automate Ghost updates with systemd on Ubuntu

Secure your self-hosted Ghost blog with Ubuntu Livepatch, unattended upgrades, and systemd.

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Hola nova: The Cuban government Linux distro

Looking for a more revolutionary distro? A look at Nova, the Linux distro from the Cuban government.

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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.

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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 dramatically improves the functionality and performance of Rust on Windows. The developer, Peter Atashian, gathered each API