In the latest Windows 10 Insider build, Microsoft has started to test the distribution of Windows Subsystem for Linux version 2 kernels via Windows Update. When Microsoft announced WSL2, they ...

Microsoft has announced that the upcoming Windows 10 2004 release will also include Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL 2) whose Linux kernel will be kept updated via Windows Update. When Microsoft ...

One overlooked Windows setting was quietly breaking three separate things.

Microsoft confirmed Friday that it will ship Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 in the upcoming Windows 10 20H1 (2004) release, though updates will be handled though Windows Update, and not the app. As we ...

For decades, Microsoft Windows and the open source Linux operating system were polar opposites. Windows was developed by the biggest software company in the world, one that was no friend to open ...

Hell has not frozen over and last I checked, there are no pigs flying overhead. However, the latest test build of Windows 10 (18917) does include a full Linux kernel, which brings about a key change ...

Linux 7.1 is here to end the Intel 486 CPU era - and do some serious legacy clean up ...

Much of modern operating system functionality happens in and around the kernel. That’s a problem when you’re implementing monitoring and observability tools or adding low-level security tools because ...