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September 2020 - Windows Command Line

What’s new in the Windows Subsystem for Linux – September 2020

September 22, 2020 Sep 22, 2020 09/22/20
Craig Loewen
This blog post highlights the WSL updates being made over the past few months, in addition to some sneak previews of our upcoming features and future plans. WSL 2 support is now available in Windows 10 version 1903 and 1909 We've heard feedback on how many users have enjoyed using WSL 2 and have made WSL 2 available to more Windows ...

Windows Terminal Preview 1.4 Release

September 22, 2020 Sep 22, 2020 09/22/20
Kayla Cinnamon
Welcome to another release of Windows Terminal Preview and Windows Terminal! Windows Terminal Preview is now on version 1.4 and will have the new features listed below. Windows Terminal has moved to version 1.3 and will have all the features from our previous preview release. You can download both of these builds from the Microsoft Store as ...

Access Linux filesystems in Windows and WSL 2

September 10, 2020 Sep 10, 2020 09/10/20
Pierre Boulay
Starting with Windows Insiders preview build 20211, WSL 2 will be offering a new feature: wsl --mount. This new parameter allows a physical disk to be attached and mounted inside WSL 2, which enables you to access filesystems that aren’t natively supported by Windows (such as ext4). So, if you’re dual booting with Windows & Linux ...

Building Windows Terminal with WinUI

September 8, 2020 Sep 8, 2020 09/8/20
Kayla Cinnamon
WinUI and Windows Terminal have a strong relationship that goes back to the origins of Windows Terminal. This blog post goes into the history and architecture of how these two technologies came together. History The history of WinUI and Windows Terminal goes back to December 2017. This was around the time the first prototyping of the ...