I’ve been using Windows and Linux, mostly side by side, for around twenty years now. Windows has always been my default, but I’ve always found myself switching to using Linux when I want to experiment ...

The Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) is a set of software tools that basically lets you install and run native Linux applications on a Windows PC without rebooting ...

At its Build developer conference this week, Microsoft announced that Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) is now open source. Developers can download the code, contribute bug fixes and new features, and ...

It took Microsoft long enough, but the company has finally open-sourced its Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) code. The announcement was made at the Build 2025 developer conference, closing a nearly ...

People just want to use Linux.

Upgrades to WSL make Linux on Windows more powerful. Linux gets more direct access to GPUs and NPUs. A pure Linux desktop is still best for AI devs. Microsoft takes one more step towards a Linux ...

Once we have enabled WSL and rebooted the PC, the next step is to download and install the Fedora/ RHEL root filesystem. After the zip file is downloaded, the next step is to extract it. If the ...

Recently, I have been spending quite a bit of time working with the Windows Subsystem for Linux in relation to a project that I have been working on. Although I have occasionally dabbled in Linux, it ...

Developers can now look under the hood at the component that allows a Linux environment to run within Windows. Most of the source code for the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) has now been released ...

Running containers on Windows has never been as easy as it should be. While there are versions of Docker Desktop and Podman ...