Microsoft is open-sourcing its Windows Subsystem for Linux. Developers will be able to download the code, build it from source, and add fixes or features. It’s a major milestone for Microsoft ...

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.

Developers will be able to access the source code for the Windows Subsystem for Linux on Github, and make enhancements and changes based on their needs by contributing pull requests to the WSL ...

Microsoft announced at the Microsoft Build 2025 event held on May 20, 2025 that it has open sourced Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), a system for running the Linux kernel inside a virtual ...

Microsoft's Windows Subsystem for Linux has become an important tool for developers and power users since it was introduced in the Windows 10 Anniversary Update back in 2016, giving them access to ...

There are many open source programs (aka code that’s accessible to the public) out there for both Linux and Windows. For programs and tools where that’s not the case, WSL (Windows Subsystem ...

ReactOS, the free Windows-like OS built from scratch without Microsoft code, gets its first major update in four years LibreOffice maker urges Windows 10 users to defect in viral ‘Go Linux, not ...

Dubbed Sudo for Windows, the source code is available on Github. If you’re on an administrator account, you already have administrative rights anyway so sudo is of little use.

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 ...

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 ...