If you’ve ever opened a command-line window on Windows and wondered which tool you should be using, you’re not alone. Between ...

It's telling that IDEs have thrived most on non-Linux or Unix platforms, particularly Windows. Windows has made less use of ...

How to run Linux with WSL on Windows 11 To install a Linux distro (such as Ubuntu) on Windows 11, use these steps: Open Start. Search for Command Prompt, right-click the top result, and select the ...

Microsoft’s Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 was released nearly 3 years ago. This brought the ability to run the Bash shell and run Linux binary executables that you’d be able to run on Ubuntu ...

Microsoft has been very successful in achieving this goal. I predicted that 2020 would be the year of Linux on the Windows desktop. I was right. Today, millions of developers use WSL.

The Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) enables the start of a Linux system and the use of Linux applications under Windows. Performance can also be improved with a new kernel.

There's WSL 1 and WSL 2, and Linux distributions for both of them. There's the in-Windows version of WSL—enabled as an "optional component" in Windows—and the Store version.

Microsoft is making its Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) open-source today, opening up the code for community members to contribute to. After launching WSL for Windows 10 nearly nine years ago ...

Malicious Linux binaries for WSL were first discovered over a year ago, with researchers at Lumen Technologies’ Black Lotus Labs publishing a report on this new type of threat in September 2021.