Microsoft's Linux server distribution is now available as an ISO to install on your own server or virtual machine.

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Eighteen new GNU releases in the last month (as of June 30, 2026): apl-2.0: GNU APL is a free interpreter for the programming language APL. It is an implementation of the ISO stan ...

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Cisco SD-WAN zero-day CVE-2026-20245 was exploited months before disclosure: Mandiant reveals how a malicious CSV file ...

Microsoft is delivering tools to quickly configure Windows PCs as workstations for Windows and Linux development.

If you use Windows today and type ls, cat, grep, or awk in a terminal, there is a good chance something useful will happen. That was not always true. For most of the history of personal computing, ...

With Microsoft's new Dev Configs, a Windows installation becomes a ready-to-use developer workstation with a single command – including WSL and Ubuntu.

Steve Ballmer’s darkest fear has come to pass: Linux has worked itself into the deepest innards of Microsoft Windows itself. At the company’s annual Build developer conference this week, Microsoft ...

With Coreutils for Windows, the same shell commands and scripts should run on Windows, Linux, and WSL. Microsoft relies on ...