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The thirteenth article in Thirty Years in IT and Me. In 2008, the App Store and the first Android phone pushed mobile phones from hardware products into software platforms. For someone still working in Linux and server systems, the real shift was not a smaller screen, but the migration of software distribution, user entry points, and developer ecosystems.
The twelfth article in Thirty Years in IT and Me. In 2007, the iPhone shifted the computing entry point, Android began taking shape, and VMware's IPO reminded the industry that both frontend entry points and backend infrastructure were changing. Around that year, I moved toward C++, GTK, and Linux cluster-management software.
The eighth essay in Thirty Years in IT and Me. In 2003, SCO sued IBM, RHEL and Fedora took separate paths, and enterprise Linux kept moving forward. Free software and open source were no longer only ideals; they also had to face licenses, commercial support, and legal risk.
The seventh essay in Thirty Years in IT and Me. In 2002, Linux clearly moved from discs, forums, and idealism toward enterprise distributions, desktop experience, domestic software, and commercial support. My own experience was only one small angle inside that wave.
The sixth essay in Thirty Years in IT and Me. Around 2001, Linux was hot in China: distributions, technical magazines, communities, servers, and the imagination around domestic software intertwined. That line had actually been planted back in 1995, when I installed Slackware on a 386.
A practical migration note for a mixed Python and Node project: move the repository from a Windows partition into the WSL Linux filesystem, then redraw the boundaries around files, paths, process calls, and performance.
Starting from a team development-environment migration, this article explains the boundaries of WSL1, WSL2, distributions, VHDX storage, Windows integration, systemd, networking, and filesystems, so you can decide what belongs in WSL.