The Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) lets you virtualize Linux distributions within the Windows desktop environment. It's a near-native solution—zero emulation here, folks—and it doesn't bog ...

The Windows Subsystem for Linux has been allowing users to run Linux applications on Windows PCs since 2016, but for most of that time you’ve had to jump through some hoops to enable the feature.

Linux apps will install to the Windows Start Menu and can be launched with the click of a button. It's a feature built specifically for developers who may be building cross-platform apps or IT ...

As part of the initial setup of installing your Linux on Windows terminal, you’ll be asked to create your user account. Once you do that and open the terminal, you can start to explore. One of ...

Start your Linux distribution again, and you will see that systemd is running as PID 1, indicating it is running as the service and system manager for WSL.

Arriving with the "fall creators update" for Windows 10 will be Windows Subsystem for Linux, Microsoft announced. The work is already apace. The beta tag was already dropped from Windows 10 build ...

After users installed the Windows 10 KB4571756 cumulative update released during the September 2020 Patch Tuesday, they were finding they could no longer use the Windows Subsystem for Linux 2.