The announcement closes a nearly nine-year-old request from the developer community, and signals a new era of collaboration ...

Developers can now look under the hood at the component that allows a Linux environment to run within Windows.

The Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) became open source, Microsoft said Monday. This marks the conclusion of a multi-year ...

Microsoft has announced at Build 2025 that the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) is now open source, with its code available ...

Developers can now download the code, contribute bug fixes and new features, and participate in WSL's development.

The company says it has done a lot of work to decouple the Windows Subsystem for Linux from the Windows core so that it can be open-sourced. It's now a standalone application, making it easier to ...

The Windows subsystem for Linux gets another official distribution with Fedora 42. It is configured for use by developers.

Microsoft developed and introduced the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) with Windows 10 and the associated server operating system. Now the professional Linux distribution Arch Linux has ...

The purpose of this document is to provide some basic information related to creating (permanent) aliases in Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). These concepts likely apply to straight Linux/Unix, but ...

After years of work, Microsoft has made the WSL code publicly available. Yes, Windows Subsystem for Linux is now officially ...