Category: Microsoft
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WSL Updates Announced by Microsoft: Introducing New Settings App
Users who are using Ubuntu on Windows via the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) may be interested to know that significant updates are coming. In a blog post from the recent Microsoft BUILD event, the senior product manager for Windows developer platforms, Craig Loewen, outlined what’s in store for WSL users. Many of the experimental…
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Major Update Introduced to Microsoft’s Open-Source Developer Font
Cascadia Code is an open-source monospaced font produced by Microsoft first released in 2020. It is the default typeface for the official Windows Terminal app. Like Intel’s One Mono, JetBrains’ Mono and IBM’s Plex, Cascadia Code is a clean, legible, modern monospaced font specifically designed for terminal and code editing. It also offers a wide…
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Microsoft Extends VS Code’s Compatibility with Ubuntu 18.04 Until 2025
Microsoft has announced a temporary reprieve for developers who use VS Code to connect to servers, clouds, container, and other devices running on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. As I covered last week, Microsoft pushed out an update to VS Code that bumps its glibc requirement, dropping support for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (which uses an older version…