Installing Linux distributions using WSL is simple enough. The official Microsoft Store has plenty of distros to choose from, ...

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 ...

Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) was released in 2016 as a solution from Microsoft to forego the need to set up a dual-boot configuration with a Linux distro or use virtual machines. It's a better ...

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 ...

At its recent Build conference Microsoft introduced the second version of its Windows Subsystem for Linux. It’s a major reworking of the original WSL concept, moving away from translating Linux system ...

The only thing I find surprising about this is that it took so long. WSL will never be popular with the hoi polloi, but sysadmins and developers love being able to run Linux on their office Windows ...

Update 5/13/19: The Arch Linux distribution on the Microsoft Store is not an authorized version. An Arch Linux team member has also pointed out that the distribution on the Microsoft Store added an ...

Microsoft is making available today, October 11, a preview version of the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) for Windows 11 in the Microsoft Store. This isn't a new version of WSL; Microsoft is just ...

WSL Kernel also referred to as Windows Subsystem for Linux updates automatically on Windows 11. But if you have paused automatic updates or for a reason WSL didn’t update automatically, you can ...

Windows 10 now allows you to mount physical disks formatted using the Linux ext4 filesystem in the Windows Subsystem for Linux 2. Linux filesystems, such as ext4, cannot be natively accessed in ...