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 ...

Hackers are showing an increased interest in the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) as an attack surface as they build new malware, the more advanced samples being suitable for espionage and ...

A new project called WSL9X brings Linux support to Windows 95 by running a current kernel without virtualization.

Why? Well, why not?

Considering that Windows NT has the concept of so-called ‘subsystems’ whereby you can run different systems side-by-side, ...

Security researchers have discovered malicious Linux binaries created for the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), indicating that hackers are trying out new methods to compromise Windows machines. The ...

Wine has become a highly optimized and useful piece of software for those that live in Linux, but occasionally need to walk on the Windows side. In case you’d wondered, there’s a similar tool for when ...

Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) is a very useful capability that Microsoft added to Windows 10 in 2017. It enables developers to run GNU/Linux environments directly in Windows without requiring ...

For those that want *nix tools on Windows without WSL, I highly recommend MSYS2. The mintty terminal that comes with MSYS2 should even help WSL users that want a good terminal without having to run ...