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May 6, 2025
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Fedora Linux is now an official WSL distro

Jeremy Cline
Jeremy Cline

We’re pleased to announce that one of the latest additions to the list of official WSL distros is Fedora Linux! The Fedora Project has taken advantage of WSL’s new tar-based architecture to produce WSL images beginning with Fedora 42. Try it out To install it, run and then launch it with . You’ll be prompted for a username, and then you’ll be rea...

Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)Fedora
Aug 27, 2024
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Windows Terminal Preview 1.22 Release

Christopher Nguyen
Christopher Nguyen

Hello friends, we have a new Windows Terminal Preview release! Windows Terminal Preview 1.22 is a large release that contains new features such as Sixel image support (a LARGE community contribution!), Grapheme Cluster Support, the Snippets Pane, Quick Fixes in CMD, and a new Cooked Read popup in CMD to name a few! We are also updating Windows Ter...

Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)Command-LineWindows Console
Oct 15, 2020
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Windows Terminal Tips and Tricks

Kayla Cinnamon
Kayla Cinnamon

Windows Terminal comes with a lot of features that allow you to customize it and interact with it in a way that feels most comfortable to you. Let's run through some tips and tricks that could help you set up your terminal in a way that's perfect for you. At the time of this blog post, Windows Terminal is on version 1.3 and Windows Terminal Preview...

Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)Command-LineWindows Console
Feb 15, 2019
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What’s new for WSL in Windows 10 version 1903?

Craig Loewen
Craig Loewen

The next Windows update is coming soon and we’re bringing exciting new updates to WSL with it! These include accessing the Linux file system from Windows, and improvements to how you manage and configure your distros in the command line. Accessing Linux files from Windows In the past, creating and changing Linux files from Windows resulted in los...

Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)Windows 10Linux tools
Nov 5, 2018
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What’s New for WSL in the Windows 10 October 2018 Update

Tara Raj
Tara Raj

On October 2, 2018, Microsoft announced that the availability of the** Windows 10 October 2018 Update**. After the update was paused, the rollout resumed on November 13, 2018. You can read more about the Windows 10 quality approach here. This post, however, will cover what you can expect to see in WSL for the October 2018 Update, Windows 10 version...

Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)Windows 10Linux tools
Sep 7, 2018
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Using WSL in an Enterprise

Craig Loewen
Craig Loewen

Recently, customers in an enterprise environment have asked if there is a way to install WSL without an internet connection. These companies had some machines that would benefit from having WSL, but don't have an internet connection for security, logistics, or other reasons. Enter: The Microsoft Store for Business We (the WSL team) took a look in...

Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)Windows StoreDistros
Jul 9, 2018
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A Guide to Upgrading your Ubuntu App’s Release

Tara Raj
Tara Raj

Canonical recently released Ubuntu 18.04 in the Microsoft Store. We received many questions around the various Ubuntu releases in the Store in addition to how best to upgrade your existing releases. With the help of our friends at Canonical, we have created a guide to upgrading your Ubuntu release. We will soon add a short-form version of this guid...

Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)Linux toolsUbuntu
May 15, 2018
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Windows Subsystem for Linux //Build 2018 Recap

Tara Raj
Tara Raj

Last week, the WSL team attended Microsoft //Build 2018. We had a great time meeting many of you and answering questions at the command line booth. In case you missed it, you can watch out session, Set up a Windows Dev Environment that Feels Like $HOME, online on Channel9. In this post, we will summarize the NEW announcement we made during //Build....

Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)Windows 10Linux tools
Mar 26, 2018
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Open Sourcing a WSL Sample for Linux Distribution Maintainers and Sideloading Custom Linux Distributions

Tara Raj
Tara Raj

We are happy to announce that we have open sourced a WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) sample  for Linux distribution maintainers.  This sample allows distro maintainers to build WSL distro packages for the Microsoft Store and developers to create custom Linux distro packages for sideloading.  You can find the distro launcher repo on GitHub. This ...

Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)Windows 10Linux tools
Mar 6, 2018
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Debian GNU/Linux for WSL now available in the Windows Store

Tara Raj
Tara Raj

We’re excited to announce that you can now download & install Debian GNU/Linux via the Windows Store! After we announced that you’d be able to install and run multiple distro’s side-by-side on WSL , we are happy to introduce another one of your favorite Linux distros to the Windows Store. As promised, we are expanding your ability to run multi...

Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)DistrosDebian