A few decades ago, the powers that be at Microsoft characterized Linux and open source in general as a cancer. Today, the company has pretty much embraced and even extended them, acquiring GitHub and ...

Microsoft was once apprehensive about Linux, with Steve Ballmer likening the operating system in 2001 to a “cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches.” ...

WSL is a virtual environment that allows you to easily run Linux on Windows. Conventionally, it was necessary to use virtualization software such as VMware and VirtualBox to run Linux on Windows, but ...

Microsoft recently released a new feature for the Windows Subsystem for Linux version 2 (WSL2) that allows you to configure global options that will be used by all WSL2 Linux distributions installed ...

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Microsoft says support for Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL 2) distros can now be added to any machine running Windows Server 2022 by installing this month's Patch Tuesday updates. The announcement ...

I became interested in WSL2 when looking for a bash environment on my windows desktop for web and python development. Now from my understanding WSL2 is tied to the Windows NT kernel and it runs as ...