It took Microsoft long enough, but the company has finally open-sourced its Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) code. The announcement was made at the Build 2025 developer conference, closing a ...

Microsoft is making its Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) open-source today, opening up the code for community members to contribute to. After launching WSL for Windows 10 nearly nine years ago, ...

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It didn’t, however, make Lxcore.sys, P9rdr.sys, or p9np.dll open source, as they are part of Windows. If you want to download the source code for version 2.5.7, GitHub is the place to go ...

The Linux political wars have been percolating for a month now, and depending on what side you belong to, the decision by Red Hat to restrict source code distribution for Red Hat Enterprise Linux ...

Red Hat Enterprise Linux and the open source community in conflict. My interview with Greg Kurtzer, founder of Rocky Linux (and a special bonus interview – see below) Hosted by Jim Love.

HONG KONG (Reuters) -China has released its first homegrown open-source desktop operating system, named OpenKylin, state media said, as the country steps up efforts to cut reliance on U.S. technology.

This state made the open-source shift, and chances are it won't be the last. Yet another European government is ditching Microsoft for Linux - here's why | ZDNET X ...

The LXcore.sys kernel side driver that powers older versions of WSL is still baked into the Windows image and will not be open source… but it’s not really required if you’re running WSL 2 or ...