Box of Cables

It began with my Azure Linux "desktop" concept: an Azure Linux 4.0 base, with a vintage Bluecurve-themed XFCE desktop, GUI stack borrowed from Fedora, running inside a wslc container, inside a .NET 11 app, using WinUI's new Reactor features (programmatic…

This is not an officially supported use of Azure Linux.

Every tech press story on new Azure Linux release, a WSL milestone, a Microsoft Linux kernel contribution, a patent pledge, and somewhere in the first few paragraphs someone reaches back to 2001 to quote Steve Ballmer calling Linux "a cancer."

dotnet/core#10448 was opened, and it has the .NET community debating this.

I made a thing...

WSL 2 ships with its own kernel: a Microsoft-maintained fork of the Linux kernel, updated regularly and tested against Windows.

I'm on the ballot for the 2026 .NET Foundation Board election.

Microsoft shipped Azure Linux 4.0 into public preview at Build 2026, and for the first time you can run it on any Azure virtual machine, not just as the host underneath Azure Kubernetes Service.

WSL has always been about reducing friction between Windows and Linux.

If your workflow crosses the Windows/Linux boundary, file I/O performance in WSL 2 has been getting steadily better.

Pre-requisites: WSL 2 enabled Visual Studio 2022 installed Install the Avalonia Extension in Visual Studio.

Dev Drive was recently announced at Microsoft Build 2023: Dev Drive is a new form of storage volume available to improve performance for key developer workloads.

Background Matthew Butterick, "writer, designer, programmer, and lawyer" has teamed up with the class action plaintiff's law firm Joseph Saveri Law Firm to sue GitHub and Microsoft over GitHub Copilot.

CBL-Delridge, Microsoft's Debian-based Linux distribution, is no more.

Podman is a daemonless container engine for developing, managing, and running OCI Containers on Linux, but it now has support on Windows and macOS as well.