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Hayden Barnes
Personal blog · boxofcables.devprogrammingsystems
Hayden Barnes writes Box of Cables, a personal blog at boxofcables.dev about programming and systems. Since 2019, 16 different Hacker News readers have linked it 24 times, most often “Accelerated KVM guests on WSL 2 (2020)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-05, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Hayden Barnes's blog for posts on Linux history (Corel LinuxOS) and on Windows and Linux working together, including WSL and a dual-stack Windows future. One commenter recommended a post on Microsoft not rebasing Windows onto Linux.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Random technology, old and new, tossed in the box by Hayden Barnes.
Most-linked posts?
- Accelerated KVM guests on WSL 2 (2020)2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2020-06-15
- /no-microsoft-is-not-rebasing-windows-to-linux2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-03-23
- Running Windows 2000 on WSL2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-02-23
What Hacker News says?
Corel LinuxOS was a good distro in its time. It had IMHO the best version of KDE 2 I ever used. Corel sold it off and it became Xandros, which was also a good distro and had a freeware version -- but both are long obsolete now. https://boxofcables.dev/corel-linux-1-2/
Comment linking /corel-linux-1-2/
on “You can legally get and run WordPerfect for free”Submitted Microsoft is not rebasing Windows to Linux as a story · 251 points
HN discussionI would recommend you to read this article by a former Canonical engineer - https://boxofcables.dev/no-microsoft-is-not-rebasing-windows...
Comment linking /no-microsoft-is-not-rebasing-windows-to-linux
on “Setting Up Arch Linux with KDE Plasma in Windows Subsystem for Linux 2”Submitted Is CBL-Mariner going to become Microsoft Linux? as a story · 163 points
HN discussionThis really brings the musings of Hayden Barnes[1] on a dual-stack operating system future (Discussed 8 months ago on HN[2]) to reality. I'm excited to be able to tightly integrate workflows between old legacy Windows-only programs and my modern dev setup without having to conspicuously be reminded of my VM usage every time I need to switch between them. [1] https://boxofcables.dev/no-microsoft-is-not-rebasing-windo…
Comment linking /no-microsoft-is-not-rebasing-windows-to-linux
on “Enabling the WSL to include support for Wayland and X server related scenarios”Submitted Azure Linux 4.0 is Microsoft's first general-purpose Linux as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted Bill Gates Was Right as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to build a custom kernel for WSL in 2025 as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted The GitHub Copilot Lawsuit Threatens Open Source and Human Progress as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted GitHub lawsuit threatens open source? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Windows API Broke Debian Stable as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Azure Linux Desktop Concept as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Accelerated KVM guests on WSL 2 (2020) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building CBL-Delridge, Microsoft's Other Linux Distro as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Accelerated KVM guests on WSL 2 (2020) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Automated Snaps of Nim Using GitHub Actions as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Stop Quoting Steve Ballmer as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Azure Linux Desktop as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Wslc: A native Linux container runtime for Windows as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted WSL 2 is getting faster Windows file system access as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Accelerated KVM guests on WSL 2 (2020) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Accelerated KVM guests on WSL 2 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Running Windows 2000 on WSL as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Running Windows 2000 on WSL as a story · 1 points
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