Celebrated open-source software advocate and author Eric Raymond, who's long argued Linux will rule the desktop, reckons it won't be long before Windows 10 becomes an emulation layer over a Linux ...

Microsoft has open-sourced the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), making its source code available on GitHub, except for a few components that are part of Windows. This marks a milestone for a project ...

Windows 10 now allows you to mount physical disks formatted using the Linux ext4 filesystem in the Windows Subsystem for Linux 2. Linux filesystems, such as ext4, cannot be natively accessed in ...

ZDNET key results With Windows 10 no longer supported, Linux is on the rise.Two distributions have greatly benefited from the demise of Windows 10.Each of these distros serves a different purpose, but ...

Developers will be able to download the WSL code and build it from source to help with fixes or features. Developers will be able to download the WSL code and build it from source to help with fixes ...

ZDNET's key takeaways If you're looking to move from Windows, you have options.Zorin OS and AnduinOS both have the look and ...

There are multiple ways to try any Linux distribution on Windows 11 or Windows 10 computers. However, Hyper-V is the native virtual machine app that you can use to install Linux Ubuntu on your PC. As ...

There are gentle migration strategies that can delay the move away from Windows 10, which Microsoft will stop supporting in October 2025. Technically (and maybe even psychologically), the easiest step ...