Bleeping Computer

Windows 10 tests WSL2 Linux Kernel updates via Windows Update

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 ...
SlashGear

Windows Can Now Run Linux GUI Apps Directly In WSL2 Preview

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 ...
HotHardware

Microsoft Will Deliver Linux GUI App Support To Windows 10 With WSL2

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.” ...
Bleeping Computer

Windows 10 2004 KB4571756 breaks Windows Subsystem for Linux 2

The Windows 10 KB4571756 security update released yesterday is reportedly breaking Microsoft's Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL2) compatibility layer. This issue prevents Windows 10 2004 users from ...
ZDNet

Windows 10 is getting a Microsoft-built Linux kernel

Microsoft has done a few custom Linux projects over the years. There was a Linux-based OS for datacenter network switches and a Linux-based microcontroller OS that it built for its Azure Sphere secure ...