WSL uses Windows' native hypervisor (Hyper-V) to create lightweight virtual environments. The Linux distro that you install ...

Instead of relying on it to behave as my main OS, having Windows 11 in a virtual machine reframes it completely. Any specific ...

Microsoft announced this week that it will bring the heart of the open source operating system Linux into Windows. Not to be outdone, Google says all future Chromebooks will be able to run Linux ...

Linux Mint 22.3 "Zena" is now available for download, bringing with it a redesigned Mint Menu, a pair of new system apps, and ...

When the news broke that Canonical and Microsoft were bringing Ubuntu to Windows 10, the official reason is that it was all about porting the Bash shell to Windows. I predicted that, while a Linux ...

Linux apps can now run in a Chromebook’s Chrome OS environment. However, the process can be tricky, and it depends on your hardware’s design and Google’s whims. Running Android apps on your Chromebook ...

Which Linux distributions will rise above the competition in 2026 to dethrone the old guard? These are my picks.

I love my Chromebook. Or, I should say, I love my Chromebooks. You see I have an early model Samsung Chromebook, a Samsung Series 5 Chromebook, and my terribly expensive, but worth every penny, ...

Microsoft said it wouldn’t support graphical applications in Bash on Windows. But enterprising geeks like w2qw on Reddit have already figured out how to run graphical applications with Bash on Windows ...

One of Linux's strengths as an operating system is its ability to be configured and tweaked to suit your tastes. Using the command line allows you to issue powerful commands that are unavailable to ...

Learn how run levels are configured and how you can change the run level interactively or modify what services are available. On Linux systems, run levels are operational levels that describe the ...