In today's open source roundup: Will the Darling project ever be able to run popular OS X applications in Linux? Plus: A review of GhostBSD 4.0 by DistroWatch, and Birds Linux 4.0 for students ...

Windows 10 now lets you run Linux GUI apps (X11 and Wayland) without using a virtual machine after Microsoft added GUI support to the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL).

Darling should work on all Linux distributions, he said, with the catch that "many apps for OS X are 32-bit only, and installing 32-bit packages on a 64-bit Linux system could be tricky depending ...

Simply put, it allows developers to write and test their cross-platform or Linux-only applications without having to give up Windows at all. WSLg is currently available on Windows 10 Insider ...

Unsurprisingly, Linux developers also found third-party workarounds to run their favorite GUI apps or even full graphical Linux desktops. They won't have to rely on those workarounds much longer.

Similar to how Wine allows Windows applications to run in Linux OS, the Darling p roject is trying to build a software compatibility layer to run OS X apps. Linux challengers Ubuntu 13.04 Review ...

Microsoft is allowing Windows 10 testers to try out Linux GUI apps. Full audio and GPU hardware acceleration is enabled, so Linux GUI apps can run alongside regular Windows ones.