Today I had the privilege of speaking with Hayden Barnes, a developer advocate for Ubuntu at Canonical. Hayden is known as the Microsoft guy at a Linux company, he founded Pengwin - a WSL distribution, and previously worked as an attorney.

 

- From Law to Linux
- Getting into systems programming
- Working at Canonical
- What is WSL?
- WSL compared to WSL2
- Upstream from project to WSL
- Future of WSL
- Canonical's involvement
- Skills for the job
- Proudest project
- Toughest challenge
- Life outside of tech

More on WSL 2:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwhMThePdIo
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/blogs/wsl/pico-process-overview

WSLConf:
https://www.wslconf.dev/

More on Hayden:
https://boxofcables.dev
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