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OpenSSH in Windows 10!

January 22, 2018 Jan 22, 2018 01/22/18
Rich Turner
SSH is one of the most important tools in the *NIX world, through which users communicate with shells, applications, and services running on remote machines, devices, VM's and containers. Windows users most often remotely access Windows machines, devices, VM's and Containers via the amazingly powerful Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) which, as ...

Share Environment Vars between WSL and Windows

December 22, 2017 Dec 22, 2017 12/22/17
Craig Wilhite
Hey WSL users—we have more features to share with you! Our latest Windows Insider build lets you share environment variables between WSL and Windows. Starting with Build 17063, let’s look at how you can leverage the new “WSLENV” to enhance environmental variable interop between Win32/WSL. Summary For the pros who’ve already heard ...

AF_UNIX comes to Windows

December 19, 2017 Dec 19, 2017 12/19/17
sarah_cooley[msft]
Introduction:  Beginning in Insider Build 17063, you’ll be able to use the unix socket (AF_UNIX) address family on Windows to communicate between Win32 processes. Unix sockets allow inter-process communication (IPC) between processes on the same machine.  Overview:  Support for the unix socket has existed both in BSD and Linux for the ...

Background Task Support in WSL

December 4, 2017 Dec 4, 2017 12/4/17
Tara Raj
Starting in Windows Insiders Build 17046, WSL supports background tasks (including daemons). In the past, if you opened WSL and started sshd, httpd, screen, or tmux  you needed to have a console window open to keep those tools running. But, starting with 17046, these processes will continue running in the background even after the last ...

WSL & Console team ch…ch…ch…chaaaaanges!

October 12, 2017 Oct 12, 2017 10/12/17
Rich Turner
(image) Dear friends of WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux, nee "Bash on [Ubuntu on] Windows") & Windows Console: I would like to share with you some changes to our org' that will benefit WSL, Windows Console and the Windows command-line in general moving forward. After shipping a major new release, Microsoft often shuffles teams and ...

Updating the Windows Console Colors

August 2, 2017 Aug 2, 2017 08/2/17
Craig Loewen
In another blockbuster post, our Summer 2017 Intern, @craigaloewen unveils a subtle, but important improvement to the Console in Windows 10 build 16257. I know many of you have been asking for this! Over to you Craig ... The Windows Console's colors are getting their first overhaul in more than 20 years! Hurray! The default color values ...

Windows Subsystem for Linux out of Beta!

July 28, 2017 Jul 28, 2017 07/28/17
Rich Turner
We're excited to announce that in Windows 10 Fall Creators Update (FCU) due to ship in fall 2017, Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) will no longer be a beta feature and will become a fully supported Windows feature. Early adopters on the Windows Insider program will notice that WSL is no longer marked as a beta feature as of Insider build ...