At the Microsoft Build 2020 virtual developers' conference, CEO Satya Nadella announced that Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) 2.0 would soon support Linux GUIs and applications. That day is closer ...

Linux GUI app support is now shipping. It's available as part of the Windows Subsystem for Linux 2. Enables the ability to run graphical Linux apps on Windows. Update: Microsoft has since clarified ...

You can select a default zone from the list and even set the default zone. Out of the box, the default zone is FedoraWorkstation, which rejects unsolicited incoming packets from ports 1 to 1024 ...

Earlier this week at Build, Microsoft introduced the Windows Package Manager, its first attempt at creating a Linux-like package manager for Windows. In its current form, it's a tool entirely based on ...

In today's open source roundup: Six GUI firewall management applications in Linux. Plus: Linux Lite 2.2 released, and the story of how Kali Linux was created The command line is a powerful tool for ...

Airbnb just announced that it has open-sourced Chronos, the company’s replacement for the standard time-based Cron schedule that is probably familiar to everybody who has ever used a Unix-based system ...

C ollabora Online is a suite of web apps for editing documents, based on LibreOffice and intended to compete with Google Docs. Now, Collabora is coming full circle and releasing new desktop ...

Running a headless server optimizes performance by ditching the GUI for a command line interface. A headless server encourages Linux command line use, building skills applicable across various ...