Windows may be the most popular desktop OS, but that doesn't mean it can do everything. If you want to do something like run a JetBrains Projector server, for instance, you're going to need a ...

Ubuntu's VP of Engineering has shared some staggering information about the growth of the platform thanks to WSL.

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 ...

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 ...

Supporting systemd required changes to the WSL architecture. As systemd requires PID 1, the WSL init process started within the Linux distribution becomes a child process of the systemd. Because the ...

Korbin is a Linux system administrator who spends most of his time in a terminal figuring out how things actually work. Over the last decade he's written hundreds of articles about Linux configuration ...

Spread the loveFor years, the idea of running Docker on Windows felt a bit like a square peg in a round hole. Docker, born ...

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 ...

Eight commands that replaced WSL for almost everything I actually do.