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 ...

Kali Linux 2026.2, the second release of the year, is now available for download, featuring 9 new tools and numerous Kali ...

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 ...

It's not always about the visual advantage.

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

I spend more time today than ever before interacting with terminal windows, which is something I don’t think Past Me would have believed in the early ’90s. Back then, poor MS-DOS was the staid ...

Publicly released exploit code for an effectively unpatched vulnerability that gives root access to virtually all releases of Linux is setting off alarm bells as defenders scramble to ward off severe ...

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