pengwinhayden

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by pengwinhayden 1y ago
Some of us are old enough to remember Corel Linux. It was about as mainstream as Linux could have gotten. It shipped with WordPerfect Office, which was still neck and neck with Microsoft Office at the time, including WordPerfect, Quattro, C
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by pengwinhayden 1y ago
> Article mischaracterizes the experience of running x64 apps on Windows on Arm, which is Rosetta 2-like at this point, but whatever Where is the translation layer that lets me seamlessly run x64 apps on Linux on Arm?
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by pengwinhayden 1y ago
Those moves are made by Red Hat, to benefit their enterprise customers, because enterprise customers are the ones who pay for Linux, their interests get top priority. Shuttleworth did so much for desktop Linux by mailing us all free install
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HeroDevs Throws .NET 6 Users a Post-Deprecation Lifeline(thenewstack.io)
2 points by pengwinhayden 2y ago|0 comments
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.NET Never-Ending Support(herodevs.com)
3 points by pengwinhayden 2y ago|0 comments
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.NET Never-Ending Support (NES)(herodevs.com)
1 points by pengwinhayden 2y ago|0 comments
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How to build a custom kernel for WSL in 2025(boxofcables.dev)
5 points by pengwinhayden 2y ago|3 comments
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by pengwinhayden 2y ago
Thanks to the WSL System Distro, we no longer need distro-specific instructions to build a WSL custom kernel. A standard, ephemeral build environment is right there, on every WSL installation.
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by pengwinhayden 2y ago
Rocky Linux is a rebuild of RHEL using end-runs around the RHEL EULA. Whether you like the RH EULA or not, that still puts Rocky on shaky ground. AlmaLinux is built from the same CentOS Sources as RHEL and patches faster, with no legal shen
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The GitHub Copilot Lawsuit Threatens Open Source and Human Progress(boxofcables.dev)
4 points by pengwinhayden 4y ago|1 comments
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by pengwinhayden 4y ago
The vague complaints of the CoPilot plaintiffs are nothing compared to the damage to free software and human progress if they won.
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Is CBL-Mariner going to become Microsoft Linux?(boxofcables.dev)
163 points by pengwinhayden 4y ago|228 comments
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Building CBL-Delridge, Microsoft's Other Linux Distro(boxofcables.dev)
2 points by pengwinhayden 5y ago|0 comments
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by pengwinhayden 7y ago
This is possible but not recommended unless you are very cautious. Windows Defender protects from Windows malware entering via WSL and Linux malware as well. For example Windows Defender has caught comprimised npm modules inside WSL.
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by pengwinhayden 7y ago
On a technical level Ubuntu 18.04 is based on a mix of Debian stable and testing with Canonical's additions. Pengwin is primarily Debian testing, with some stable and some unstable here and there. Pengwin configures dozens of settings
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by pengwinhayden 7y ago
We alter dozens of settings to defaults that make sense for the WSL environment. Unlike the other distributions available for WSL, Pengwin is designed for WSL first.
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by pengwinhayden 7y ago
The name and logo were developed in consultantion with Dennis Bednarz. https://twitter.com/DennisBednarz
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by pengwinhayden 7y ago
You are correct. This is for contributors to get paid to add features they want to see in the project. I wish we had more applications under the grant program.