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Craig Loewen

@craigloewen.bsky.social

I make the Linux work in the Windows

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It depends on the project and how you're building it, sometimes it comes down to what apps you have as file filters, what you have installed or not in Linux etc.

19.05.2025 19:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Thanks Isaac!

19.05.2025 19:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source Today weโ€™re very excited to announce the open-source release of the Windows Subsystem for Linux. This is the result of a multiyear effort to prepare for this, and a great closure to the first ever iss...

So proud to announce that the Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source!

blogs.windows.com/windowsdevel...

19.05.2025 16:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 71    ๐Ÿ” 18    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 7
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Fedora Linux is now an official WSL distro Weโ€™re pleased to announce that one of the latest additions to the list of official WSL distros is Fedora Linux! The Fedora Project has taken advantage of WSLโ€™s new tar-based architecture to produce WS...

There are new WSL distros to try! Fedora has created an official WSL distro, check out the details:
devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/...

06.05.2025 16:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 39    ๐Ÿ” 7    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Boost your development productivity with Windows latest tools and tips Join the team that builds PowerToys, Windows Terminal, Windows Subsystem for Linux, WinGet, and more. Theyโ€™ll share the latest news, tools, and tips! There will be live demos, deep explorations of how...

This year at #MSBuild, I'm joined by @larryosterman.github.io and @craigloewen.bsky.social to talk about all the new awesomeness coming to Windows for developers ๐Ÿ”ฅ

This talk is 88% live demos (we did the math)

You won't want to miss this one ๐Ÿ˜‰

build.microsoft.com/sessions/BRK...

28.04.2025 22:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 30    ๐Ÿ” 11    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
Java on Azure Day Seoul 2025 - ์ด๋ฒคํ„ฐ์Šค ๋งˆ์ดํฌ๋กœ์†Œํ”„ํŠธ ์ž๋ฐ” ์ „๋ฌธ๊ฐ€๋“ค์ด ์ง์ ‘ ์ „ํ•˜๋Š” Java on Azure!

๋‹ค์Œ ๋‹ฌ์— ์ €๋Š” "Java on Azure Dev Day Seoul 2025" ํšŒ์˜์— ๊ฐœ๋ฐœ์ž ์œ„ํ•ด ํ•œ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ๊ธฐ๋Šฅ๋“ค์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋ฐœํ‘œ๋ฅผ ํ•  ๊ฑฐ์˜ˆ์š”!

์—ฌ๊ธฐ์— ๊ฐ€์ž…ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค

event-us.kr/msazurekr/ev...

31.03.2025 14:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Java on Azure Day Seoul 2025 - ์ด๋ฒคํ„ฐ์Šค ๋งˆ์ดํฌ๋กœ์†Œํ”„ํŠธ ์ž๋ฐ” ์ „๋ฌธ๊ฐ€๋“ค์ด ์ง์ ‘ ์ „ํ•˜๋Š” Java on Azure!

I'll be speaking at the "Java on Azure Day Seoul 2025" conference coming up next month about the latest Windows improvements for developers! Come check it out:

event-us.kr/msazurekr/ev...

31.03.2025 13:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
There's a Linux File Explorer built into Visual Studio for Windows?!?
YouTube video by Scott Hanselman There's a Linux File Explorer built into Visual Studio for Windows?!?

One of my favourite things is seeing the mini integration points between Linux and Windows, check out this video from @scott.hanselman.com !

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wxse...

07.03.2025 14:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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GitHub - microsoft/WSL2-Linux-Kernel: The source for the Linux kernel used in Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL2) The source for the Linux kernel used in Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL2) - microsoft/WSL2-Linux-Kernel

You can compile your own Linux kernel from source here if you need headers!

github.com/microsoft/WS...

As well we are working on adding kernel module support to WSL to help with scenarios like this :)

23.01.2025 18:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Should be as simple as `wsl.exe node /tmp/myscript.js`!

I have it installed with NVM so I just passed the binary location directly to this command in PowerShell:

09.01.2025 18:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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๐ŸŽ Day 1 - Shortcut Guide ๐ŸŽ

Type Win+Shift+/ to open Shortcut Guide, which will display common Windows shortcuts, shortcuts for changing the position of the active window, and taskbar shortcuts! #PowerToysAdvent
learn.microsoft.com/windows/powe...

01.12.2024 19:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 41    ๐Ÿ” 10    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Yes I like WSL very much.

19.11.2024 20:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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