In February, It's Foss News reported that a WSL image for Arch Linux was on its way, and as of now, it has become official-- Arch Linux is available. Windows Subsystem for Linux is a compatibility ...

Installing Linux distributions using WSL is simple enough. The official Microsoft Store has plenty of distros to choose from, ...

However, with the release of the recent Windows 11 Insider Preview Build, Windows users can now also use this feature. This new feature allows users to run elevated commands directly from an ...

Running Linux on a Windows system opens up a world of possibilities for users who want to explore the power and flexibility of the Linux operating system. Whether you’re a developer, a system ...

Of all the new features that are coming to Windows 11, the one feature that I am most intrigued and excited about is the addition of the Sudo command. When I first heard that Microsoft was adding the ...

Once we have enabled WSL and rebooted the PC, the next step is to download and install the Fedora/ RHEL root filesystem. After the zip file is downloaded, the next step is to extract it. If the ...

The Qilin ransomware operation was spotted executing Linux encryptors in Windows using Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) to evade detection by traditional security tools. The ransomware first launched ...

Some days, you really need to run a Windows-only program, even if you're a die-hard Linux user -- like yours truly. For those times, I often turn to Wine (formerly an acronym for "Wine Is Not an ...

WTF?! Someone designed an experimental tool that can run a program or even a tiny operating system after a Windows crash. It has many limitations, but the ability to ...

Wine is not an emulator like Qemu or a virtualization environment like Virtualbox, but a runtime environment that aims to emulate the Windows API on Linux. This API mapping is not complete, but it is ...

Most Windows programs don't run on Linux, and those that do usually have special versions that are compiled specifically for ...