As a result, I've stopped dual-booting in favor of WSL, as my Linux machine is accessible without compromising on the main OS ...

Microsoft was once apprehensive about Linux, with Steve Ballmer likening the operating system in 2001 to a “cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches.” ...

Microsoft is adding GPU and graphical user interface (GUI) support to the Windows Subsystem for Linux, pushing the intriguing Windows feature ever closer to becoming a full-fledged Linux instantiation ...

Windows 10's Windows System for Linux (WSL) will soon let developers run Linux GUI apps, while Linux guests on Windows will soon gain access to GPU power for hardware acceleration. WSL is currently ...

Microsoft recently released a new feature for the Windows Subsystem for Linux version 2 (WSL2) that allows you to configure global options that will be used by all WSL2 Linux distributions installed ...

Microsoft has today announced that it is backporting WSL2 (Windows Subsystem for Linux 2) to Windows 10 versions 1903 and 1909. The support comes via a cumulative update that is rolling out to both ...

Microsoft says support for Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL 2) distros can now be added to any machine running Windows Server 2022 by installing this month's Patch Tuesday updates. The announcement ...

The pre-release version had been bumped to a 6.6 kernel, but there are issues to rectify before it's ready for prime time. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

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 ...