And, Canonical, we now know, wants to see the Ubuntu Linux desktop succeed in a new frontier: Windows SubSystem for Linux (WSL). Ubuntu was the first Linux supported by WSL on Windows 10.

Opening a Linux terminal on a Windows 10 desktop can help you practice your Linux skills and explore Windows from an entirely different point of view. In this post, we look at Ubuntu 18.04 running ...

First, Ubuntu parent company Canonical and Microsoft will be running it not on Linux in a container or virtual machine (VM), but on Windows native libraries and programs: Windows Subsystem for ...

The Windows Subsystem for Linux permits Linux distros to run natively on Windows 10. Microsoft initially collaborated with Canonical to integrate Ubuntu Linux with the subsystem, which lets users ...

In this updated version of the Windows Subsystem for Linux, it's also possible to attach and mount a drive to access Linux file systems not supported on Windows 11. The process to mount a drive is ...

Microsoft added the support for Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) on Windows 11 and Windows 10. It made it possible for users to install various Linux distros like Ubuntu, SUSE Linux, Kali Linux ...

The blog post Getting Linux on Windows 10 with WSL - Some basic installation ... references for getting started with the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), with an emphasis of getting R running on ...

T he Windows Subsystem for Linux, or WSL for short, makes it easy to use Linux software inside a Windows PC. You can now officially use Arch Linux in WSL, alongside existing distribution options ...

A promised expansion of the Windows Subsystem for Linux recently took a new step forward, with the release of two new Linux distributions to run alongside the existing Ubuntu release: OpenSuse and ...

The Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 might be the most useful feature released for Windows in years. ... WSL will install Ubuntu, but you have more than a dozen options available. To see them all, ...

Microsoft announced that Ubuntu has arrived in the Windows Store. The company also revealed that it is working with Fedora and Suse to bring their distributions to the Windows Subsystem for Linux ...