The announcement closes a nearly nine-year-old request from the developer community, and signals a new era of collaboration ...

Microsoft has open-sourced the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), making its ... BUILD 2016 and was ultimately shipped in the Windows 10 Anniversary Update, allowing you to run Linux distributions ...

Microsoft's Windows Subsystem for Linux has become an important tool for developers and power users since it was introduced ...

Developers will be able to download the WSL code and build it from source to help with fixes or features. Developers will be able to download the WSL code and build it from source to help with ...

Yesterday, Microsoft released an important out-of-band update for Windows 10, identified as update KB5061768 ... might cause the Local Security Authority Subsystem Service (LSASS) process to ...

Microsoft has open-sourced the Windows Subsystem for Linux, years after the platform's debut. The Windows Subsystem for Linux was first announced in 2016 and shipped with the Windows 10 Anniversary ...

The Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) became open source ... Pierre Boulay, Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft, explained that WSL first launched in 2016 with Windows 10 Anniversary Update as WSL 1 ...

A seven-year-old Android tablet destined to become e-waste has been resurrected by a modder, ChatGPT, and a tweaked BIOS.

Sadly that wasn’t an option when Microsoft decided to discontinue the Windows Subsystem for Android. That said, at this point it feels like WSL is probably here to stay for the foreseeable ...

At its BUILD 2025 event today Microsoft has announced the open-sourcing of its popular Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), which allows you to run Linux within Windows, without the overhead of a ...