Open Source - Box of Cables

The GitHub Copilot Lawsuit Threatens Open Source and Human Progress

The vague complaints of the Copilot plaintiffs are nothing compared to the damage to free software and human progress if they won.

Linux

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

Running a massively scalable CUDA-accelerated AI/ML lab on WSL 2 with Determined

Getting a scalable AI/ML model training environment set up and running on WSL 2, with Docker Desktop and CUDA GPU compute.

Windows

Creating A Lightweight Windows Container Dev Environment without Docker Desktop

Working with Windows Containers without Docker Desktop from PowerShell.

Linux

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.

Open Source

Bill Gates was right

Gates' 'Open Letter to Hobbyists' wasn't a declaration of war against open source. It is a key foundation of it.

Linux

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.

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.

Linux

Deploying Rancher on k3s on WSL 2

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

Open Source

Experimenting with flux2 on microk8s

In which I try to get flux2 working on microk8s...

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.

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.

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.

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 an upstream community project of a corporate-backed product. We do not accept venture capital funding or angel