Microsoft's Linux server distribution is now available as an ISO to install on your own server or virtual machine.

We installed WSL Containers on Windows 11, built a custom container from scratch, tested it, and checked what still needs ...

Eighteen new GNU releases in the last month (as of June 30, 2026): apl-2.0: GNU APL is a free interpreter for the programming language APL. It is an implementation of the ISO stan ...

Decades-old Bash shell tricks can bypass safeguards in most open source AI coding agents, creating a new software supply ...

If you don’t use Linux the way it’s meant to be used, you’re basically swimming against the current and wondering why you’re ...

Microsoft is delivering tools to quickly configure Windows PCs as workstations for Windows and Linux development.

It's not always about the visual advantage.

If you use Windows today and type ls, cat, grep, or awk in a terminal, there is a good chance something useful will happen. That was not always true. For most of the history of personal computing, ...

With Coreutils for Windows, the same shell commands and scripts should run on Windows, Linux, and WSL. Microsoft relies on ...

Major Linux distributions are rushing to fix two new vulnerabilities after the disclosure embargo was broken. The vulnerability, comprised of two chained issues in subsystems of the Linux kernel and ...

Facepalm: Security researchers recently unveiled "Copy Fail," a bug that could potentially bring the entire Linux ecosystem to a screeching halt. The flaw can be reliably exploited across all ...

cfg2html is a small utility for collecting the necessary system configuration files and system setup into an ASCII file and an HTML file. Easy to use and very useful in disaster recovery situations.