Links 2023-07-06
On Linux and WSL …
- Sorting out what the Single Unix Specification is and covers – Chris Siebenmann
For most purposes, then, I can just talk about ‘POSIX’ or ‘Single Unix Specification’ interchangeably, which is somewhat different than how I used to think it was.
- Pragmatic Debian packaging (2019) – Vincent Bernat
Building Debian packages with the official tools can become straightforward if you bend some rules.
- Major Linux Problems on the Desktop, 2023 edition – Artem S. Tashkinov
In this regularly but rarely updated article, which is without doubt the most comprehensive list of Linux distributions’ problems on the entire Internet, we only discuss their main problems and shortcomings […]
- Why I Will Never Use Alpine Linux Ever Again – Martin Heinz
There are plenty of reasons why you should not use Alpine for your container images, some of which can cause you great amount of grief…
- Windows for Linux Nerds – Jessie Frazelle
I am super excited about Windows Subsystem for Linux. It is one of the coolest pieces of tech I’ve seen since I started using Docker.
- Windows Subsystem for Linux: The lost potential – Julio Merino
WSL 2 “throws away” all of the Linux subsystem parts […] What this means is that the beauty of the WSL 1 design is gone.