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

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

Microsoft is making its Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) open-source today, opening up the code for community members to ...

Microsoft's Windows Subsystem for Linux has become an important tool for developers and power users since it was introduced ...

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

The Windows Subsystem for Linux was first announced in 2016 and shipped with the Windows 10 Anniversary Update that year. It was based on a pico process provider, lxcore.sys, which enabled Windows to ...

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) is a set of software tools that basically lets you install and run native Linux ...

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

Most components are now open-source, with the exception of a few elements tied directly to Windows, with the source code ...

Microsoft officially announced on Monday its decision to open source Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), nearly a decade after ...

Microsoft just released the source code for Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), making the nifty tech open-source nearly a ...