XDA Developers on MSN

Microsoft finally admitted Linux won, and Coreutils for Windows proves it

The tools Linux developers love are coming to Windows.

Windows Subsystem for Linux gives developers a compelling reason to stick with Microsoft - here's why

WSL 3 makes staying on Windows easier, especially for developers building or running Linux-based AI, container, or dev ...
Bleeping Computer

Microsoft's Coreutils project brings Linux commands to Windows

Microsoft announced today at its Build 2026 developer conference the release of Coreutils for Windows, bringing many commonly used Linux command-line utilities to Windows as native applications. The ...
XDA Developers on MSN

I ditched my Linux VM for WSL, and Windows suddenly became a legitimate development environment

Experience the best of both worlds with WSL, a lightweight and efficient solution for running Linux on Windows.
Network World

Microsoft makes Linux developers feel more at home in Windows with Coreutils release

As well as Coreutils, the Build 2026 developer conference also saw Microsoft announce WSL containers CLI and API to deploy Linux containers on Windows, a new framework for autonomous agents with open ...
Hackaday

A Brief History Of Unix Commands On Windows: CoreUtils (Again)

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, ...
Liliputing

Windows Package Manager now supports aliases (so you can use Linux commands)

Microsoft’s Windows Package Manager is a command line tool that lets you install, update, and remove applications on PCs running Windows 10 or Windows 11. First introduced a few years ago, the ...
Liliputing

Run Linux apps on Windows 95 with Windows 9x subsystem for Linux

Microsoft introduced a Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) with Windows 10. Initially it allowed you to run command line Linux utilities in Windows, but over time Microsoft added support for ...