If you want to show off what Windows Subsystem for Linux distribution you are using in Windows 10, you can do so in style using the WSLFetch utility. In their first Windows LTS release in two years, ...

Along with a new Terminal app for interacting with command line tools, Microsoft is previewing a major update for its Windows Subsystem for Linux. The new version is called WSL 2, and Microsoft says ...

Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL2) has brought the Linux kernel to Windows. Does that really matter, you might ask, since WSL already did an excellent job of emulating Linux? Oh yeah it does. It ...

Microsoft released improvements to its Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL) in a Windows 10 preview build on Wednesday, with features benefiting newcomers and developers alike. As part of the update, ...

Microsoft declared this week that Windows Subsystem for Linux version 2 (WSL2) is now available for installation on Windows Server 2022. WSL is a component that supports running Linux dev tools (but ...

Microsoft backported Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 to older Windows 10 versions. Windows 10 versions 1909 and 1903 can now use WSL 2 distros. The update is available to install now via Windows Update.

A software layer from Microsoft for executing Linux applications in Windows 10 and Windows Server 2019. Introduced in 2016, Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL 1 ...

When the announcement first came out, I immediately tried to install it on my Windows 10 system. The same system that had been running the "feature" version. The same system were I installed WSL using ...

Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL2) is being released soon with the May 2020 Update (Windows 10 2004) and comes with new features and performance improvements. The Windows Subsystem for Linux feature ...

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Microsoft's rollout of Windows 10 2004 has been slow. And a number of business users tend to skip the spring/H1 Windows 10 feature updates and focus on the fall/H2 ones, which are supported for longer ...

Microsoft announced on Thursday that it has backported support for Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) version 2 into Windows 10 versions 1903 and 1909. WSL is a Windows 10 component that permits ...