Microsoft's Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) for running GNU/Linux environments on Windows 10 and Windows 11 has reached version 1.0.0 and is now generally available. Microsoft has been building WSL, ...

The Windows Subsystem for Linux is bridging the divide between Windows and Linux by letting you run Windows 10 programs directly within a Linux shell. One of the strengths of the Windows Subsystem for ...

Linux users are likely familiar with Wine—a piece of software that allows Windows software to be run on Linux. But did you know you can download and run Linux on Windows natively, and through the ...

This is the third article in a series on using Microsoft Windows Subsystem on Linux (WSL). The first article discussed how to enable Linux on Windows and install it on an ESXi server. The second ...

Microsoft has added the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) as a separate app to the Microsoft Store with the release of Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22518 to the Dev Channel. The WSL store app for ...

This article is part four of a five-part series in which I discuss various aspects and functions of the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). In my previous article I demonstrated how to install ...

There are many open source programs (aka code that’s accessible to the public) out there for both Linux and Windows. For programs and tools where that’s not the case, WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) ...

At the Build 2025 developer conference, Microsoft announced that the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) is now open source. The code is available in the GitHub repository. In a post on the Windows ...

At the Microsoft Build 2020 virtual developers' conference, CEO Satya Nadella announced that Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) 2.0 would soon support Linux GUIs and applications. That day is closer ...

With the fall release of Windows 10 Fall Creators Update, developers will be able to get full support for WSL, now that it's no longer labeled a beta service. With the release of Windows 10 Fall ...