Installing Linux distributions using WSL is simple enough. The official Microsoft Store has plenty of distros to choose from, ...

Windows 10 is getting improved integration between the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) and File Explorer that allows you to directly access the folders of installed Linux distributions. Currently, ...

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 ...

WSL 2 (Windows Subsystem for Linux 2) is a new version of the architecture in WSL that changes how Linux distributions interact with Windows. WSL 2 has the primary goals of increasing file system ...

Microsoft has released an open source tool that makes it easier for programmers and developers to run Linux on Windows 10. The new tool, released last week, also helps Linux distribution maintainers ...

COLUMBUS, Ga., Nov. 15, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Whitewater Foundry (https://www.pengwin.dev/raft-wsl) recently announced the release of Raft, a distribution manager for ...

Microsoft has released a tool to help Linux distribution maintainers bring their distros to the Windows Store to run on Windows 10's Windows Subsystem for Linux. Microsoft describes the tool as a ...

Microsoft says that recent Windows 11 security updates are causing VPN networking failures for enterprise users running ...

While Windows 10 1809 is still under review due to the data-loss bug, Microsoft has now outlined how 1809 will bring more support for Linux distributions through the Windows 10 Windows Subsystem for ...

At its recent Build conference Microsoft introduced the second version of its Windows Subsystem for Linux. It’s a major reworking of the original WSL concept, moving away from translating Linux system ...

Here’s what WSL is all about: getting the tools you need to do cross-platform development and management on your PC Yesterday, I sat in a coffeeshop and installed two Linux distributions on my Windows ...