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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 Mic…

> 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 sea…

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 …

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 i…

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 C…

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

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 De…

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…

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.

The name and logo were developed in consultantion with Dennis Bednarz. https://twitter.com/DennisBednarz

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.