With Microsoft embracing Linux ever more tightly, might it do the heretofore unthinkable and dump the NT kernel in favor ... This works by translating Windows system calls into Linux calls.

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

Microsoft has open-sourced the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), making its source code available on GitHub, except for a ...

The winner? Windows… running on Linux. He's on to something. I've long thought that Microsoft was considering migrating the Windows interface to running on the Linux kernel. Why? Raymond ...

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

based solution provider, doesn't interpret Torvalds' comments as a dire warning or a call to action. Instead, Golden says the growth of the Linux kernel reflects the fact that more vendors are ...

Free operating system Linux is looking to Windows as its role model, at least in this one way: implementing its own Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) to warn users in cases of a kernel panic.

When the Windows Subsystem for Linux was first released, it utilized a Linux-compatible kernel that translated Linux systems calls into system calls that could be executed by the Windows kernel.

You won't have to be a tester to try Windows 10's new, built-in Linux kernel in the near future. Microsoft has confirmed that Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 will be widely available when Windows 10 ...

but also announcing that Windows 10 will begin shipping with a real Linux kernel later this year. WSL 2 is framed by Microsoft as its response to a wealth of community feedback, the loudest of ...

Today, we're very excited to announce the open-source release of the Windows Subsystem for Linux. This is the result of a ...