Microsoft declared this week that Windows Subsystem for Linux version 2 (WSL2) is now available for installation on Windows Server 2022. WSL is a component that supports running Linux dev tools (but ...

Released with the Windows 10 Insider Preview, the new architecture looks to deliver a faster file system performance, among other new and improved features. On May 6, 2019, Microsoft announced that it ...

Microsoft announced today that a fix for the 'Element not found' error in the Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 would be released shortly in an upcoming servicing release ...

Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL2) has brought the Linux kernel to Windows. Does that really matter, you might ask, since WSL already did an excellent job of emulating Linux? Oh yeah it does. It ...

Microsoft's rollout of Windows 10 2004 has been slow. And a number of business users tend to skip the spring/H1 Windows 10 feature updates and focus on the fall/H2 ones, which are supported for longer ...

Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL2) is being released soon with the May 2020 Update (Windows 10 2004) and comes with new features and performance improvements. The Windows Subsystem for Linux feature ...

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Microsoft's latest Windows 10 preview release for testers (build 18980), announced on Wednesday, includes support for version 2 of the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), plus ARM64 device support for ...

I brought up an Administrator Windows console and entered wsl --list and was informed that WSL had no installed distributions and I should visit the Microsoft Store to download one (Figure 3). From ...

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When the announcement first came out, I immediately tried to install it on my Windows 10 system. The same system that had been running the "feature" version. The same system were I installed WSL using ...

Microsoft has confirmed that support for Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL 2) was backported to version 1903 and version 1909 of Windows 10. Developers have worked over the last few months to bring ...