WSL Articles & Reviews |
| Windows 11 WSL2 Performance vs. Ubuntu Linux With The AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D | Operating Systems | 2023-04-26 |
| Windows 11 WSL2 Performance Is Quite Competitive Against Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / Ubuntu 21.10 | Operating Systems | 2021-09-29 |
| An Early Look At Windows 11 WSL2 Performance Against Ubuntu Linux | Operating Systems | 2021-07-06 |
| Windows Subsystem For Linux / WSL2 Performance With The AMD Ryzen 9 5900X | Operating Systems | 2020-12-16 |
| Ubuntu 20.04 vs. Windows 10 WSL/WSL2 Performance In 170+ Benchmarks | Operating Systems | 2020-06-24 |
| Windows 10 May 2020 Performance For WSL vs. WSL2 | Operating Systems | 2020-06-17 |
| Windows Subsystem For Linux Performance At The End Of 2019 | Operating Systems | 2019-12-11 |
| Initial Benchmarks Of Microsoft's WSL2 - Windows Subsystem For Linux 2 On Windows 10 Is A Mixed Bag | Operating Systems | 2019-06-14 |
| WLinux & WLinux Enterprise Benchmarks, The Linux Distributions Built For Windows 10 WSL | Operating Systems | 2019-01-18 |
| A Look At The Windows 10 October 2018 Update Performance With WSL | Operating Systems | 2018-10-12 |
| Dell XPS 13: Windows 10 vs. Linux Distribution Benchmarks | Operating Systems | 2018-07-17 |
| Using W10Privacy To Boost Ubuntu WSL Performance On Windows 10 | Software | 2018-06-18 |
| TrueOS, FreeBSD, OpenBSD & DragonFlyBSD Against Linux + Windows 10 Benchmarks | Operating Systems | 2018-06-04 |
| 15-Way Linux Distribution / Operating System Comparison, Including Windows 10 & WSL | Operating Systems | 2018-05-31 |
| Benchmarking Ubuntu 18.04 On Windows Subsystem for Linux: WSL Leading Bare Linux In More Tests | Operating Systems | 2018-05-18 |
| AMD Ryzen 7 Performance On Windows 10, Windows Server 2016, Six Linux Distributions | Operating Systems | 2018-04-07 |
| Windows 10 vs. Windows WSL vs. Linux - Ubuntu / openSUSE / Debian / Clear Linux | Operating Systems | 2018-03-28 |
| Radeon Linux OpenGL Driver Continues Giving Its Best Against Windows 10 | Display Drivers | 2018-02-23 |
| Windows 10 WSL vs. Linux Performance For Early 2018 | Operating Systems | 2018-02-22 |
| Windows 10 WSL vs. Docker on Windows 10 vs. Bare Metal Linux Performance | Operating Systems | 2017-12-01 |
| Windows 10 WSL: Ubuntu vs. openSUSE Leap Performance | Operating Systems | 2017-08-04 |
| Windows 10 WSL CPU Scaling Performance vs. Linux | Operating Systems | 2017-08-01 |
| Windows 10 Radeon Software vs. Ubuntu 17.04 + Linux 4.12 + Mesa 17.2-dev | Linux Gaming | 2017-07-07 |
| Windows 10 WSL vs. VirtualBox Ubuntu Performance On An Intel Core i9 7900X | Operating Systems | 2017-07-05 |
| Windows 10 Creators WSL vs. Clear Linux vs. Ubuntu 17.04 | Operating Systems | 2017-04-28 |
| Nouveau Companion 41 | Display Drivers | 2008-12-11 |
| Nouveau Companion 40 | Display Drivers | 2008-10-29 |
| Nouveau Companion 36 | Display Drivers | 2008-03-05 |
| Nouveau Companion 27 | Display Drivers | 2007-09-26 |
WSL Linux & Open-Source News |
| Nova Driver, Linux 6.9 Features & Other Linux News From March | Phoronix | 2024-04-01 |
| Microsoft Helping Out In Making The Linux Kernel Language More Inclusive | Microsoft | 2024-03-30 |
| Microsoft Enables DNS Tunneling By Default For WSL - More Reliable Networking | Microsoft | 2024-03-22 |
| Rust Coreutils & Reproducible Builds Receives Funding From The Sovereign Tech Fund | Free Software | 2024-03-18 |
| Microsoft's DirectX Shader Compiler Sees Improved Linux Build Support | Microsoft | 2024-03-11 |
| Microsoft Ending Support For Windows Subsystem For Android | Microsoft | 2024-03-05 |
| Microsoft Pushes Out Big February Update For CBL-Mariner 2.0 Linux Distro | Microsoft | 2024-02-25 |
| Intel Extension For PyTorch Now Officially Supports Arc A-Series Graphics | Intel | 2024-02-23 |
| Microsoft Confirms Bringing Sudo For Windows, Is Open-Source Too | Microsoft | 2024-02-07 |
| Microsoft Releases First CBL-Mariner Linux Distro Update Of 2024 | Microsoft | 2024-01-15 |
| Microsoft Continued Advancing WSL2, Mesa & Its In-House Linux Distro In 2023 | Microsoft | 2024-01-03 |
| AMD CPU Use By Linux Gamers At ~70%, AMD openSIL, & AMD Laptops Topped 2023 | AMD | 2024-01-01 |
| Raspberry Pi 5 & New AMD Ryzen CPUs Excited Linux Readers The Most In 2023 | Phoronix | 2023-12-27 |
| Microsoft Enables OpenGL 4.6 Support Over Direct3D 12 | Mesa | 2023-11-19 |
| Microsoft Adds Enterprise Security Features To WSL | Microsoft | 2023-11-16 |
| Microsoft Achieves OpenGL 4.5 Atop Direct3D 12 With Mesa | Mesa | 2023-11-15 |
| Microsoft Gets OpenGL 4.4 Running Atop Direct3D 12 Using Mesa, OpenGL 4.5 Inbound | Microsoft | 2023-11-14 |
| Microsoft Gets OpenGL 4.3 Implemented Atop Direct3D 12 With Mesa | Mesa | 2023-11-08 |
| Microsoft's CBL-Mariner Linux Distro Issues A Big Update For November | Microsoft | 2023-11-08 |
| ReactOS "Open-Source Windows" Improving UEFI Boot, DirectX Work & NT6+ API Prep | Operating Systems | 2023-11-05 |
| Microsoft Releases A Big Update To Windows Subsystem For Linux, New Experimental Options | Microsoft | 2023-09-18 |
| Intel Compute Runtime 23.26.26690.22 Is A Big Update For Intel's OpenCL/L0 Stack | Intel | 2023-09-13 |
| JetBrains Enabling Wayland Support For IntelliJ-Based IDEs | Wayland | 2023-08-30 |
| Microsoft's CBL-Mariner 2.0 Linux Distro Adds DNF5, Zstd-Compressed RPMs | Microsoft | 2023-08-10 |
| Microsoft's CBL-Mariner 2.0.20230630 Ships Security Fixes, Adds In Some Extra Bits | Microsoft | 2023-07-18 |
| Microsoft Adds Direct3D 12 Powered AV1 Video Encoding To Mesa | Microsoft | 2023-06-28 |
| ReactOS "Open-Source Windows" Steadily Improving x64 Port | Operating Systems | 2023-06-27 |
| FreeBSD Celebrating Its 30th Anniversary | BSD | 2023-06-18 |
| WSL 1.3.10 Brings Experimental Memory Reclaim, Updated DXCore & Linux Kernel | Microsoft | 2023-06-14 |
| AMD RX 7600, Intel X86-S & Other Exciting Linux/Open-Source News From May | Phoronix | 2023-06-01 |
| FFmpeg's Next Release Will Be Exciting With Vulkan Video Decode, More Vulkan Filters | Multimedia | 2023-05-31 |
| Linux Features Loved By Microsoft Engineers Working On WSL2 | Microsoft | 2023-05-14 |
| Silly Open-Source Moves, AMD openSIL & Rust Happenings Made For An Interesting Month | Phoronix | 2023-04-30 |
| FFmpeg Now Works With VA-API On Windows Thanks To Microsoft | Multimedia | 2023-04-25 |
| VA-API's Libva 2.18 Released With Windows WSL D3D12 Support, Optional Disabling DRI3 | Multimedia | 2023-03-28 |
| Microsoft's CBL-Mariner Linux Distribution Continues Cultivating More Packages | Microsoft | 2023-03-25 |
| Mesa 23.1 Provides Improved EGL Implementation For Haiku | Mesa | 2023-03-02 |
| Intel Compute Runtime 22.53.25242.13 Released With OpenCL & Level Zero Enhancements | Intel | 2023-03-01 |
| Microsoft's CBL-Mariner Linux Shows Increasing HPC Interest | Microsoft | 2023-02-24 |
| Intel Issues Big Updates To Their Compute-Runtime & IGC Compiler | Intel | 2023-02-23 |
| Microsoft Officially Launches D3D12 GPU Video Acceleration For WSL Linux Use | Microsoft | 2023-02-13 |
| Microsoft CBL-Mariner 2.0 Update Adds New PipeWire, Other Changes | Microsoft | 2023-02-02 |
| Microsoft's Dzn Mesa Driver Already Hits Vulkan 1.2 | Microsoft | 2023-01-27 |
| Microsoft Releases WinGet 1.4 For Improving Its Open-Source Package Manager | Microsoft | 2023-01-23 |
| Microsoft Begins Providing DirectX Shader Compiler Linux Binaries | Microsoft | 2022-12-18 |
| AMD EPYC Genoa, Linux 6.1 & Rust Efforts Excited Linux Users In November | Phoronix | 2022-12-01 |
| Mesa 22.3 Released With RDNA3 Vulkan, Rusticl OpenCL, Better Intel Arc Graphics | Mesa | 2022-11-30 |
| Microsoft Promotes Windows Subsystem For Linux "WSL" To GA Status | Microsoft | 2022-11-22 |
| Microsoft Issues Big CBL-Mariner 2.0 Linux Distribution Update | Microsoft | 2022-11-04 |
| Mesa 22.3-rc1 Released With Rusticl, Many Intel & Radeon Vulkan Driver Improvements | Mesa | 2022-11-02 |
| Intel Extension For TensorFlow Released - Provides Intel GPU Acceleration | Intel | 2022-10-28 |
| Microsoft Adds Mesa Support For Building Against The DirectX 12 Agility SDK | Microsoft | 2022-10-21 |
| Microsoft Promotes Its Open-Source Terminal To The Default For Windows 11 CLI Apps | Microsoft | 2022-10-18 |
| Microsoft Releases Its Linux Distribution Update For October 2022 | Microsoft | 2022-10-18 |
| AMD Ryzen 7000 Series, Linux 6.0, MGLRU, Rust & IO_uring Made For An Exciting September | Phoronix | 2022-10-01 |
| Microsoft Adds AV1 Decode Support To Their Mesa D3D12 Driver | Microsoft | 2022-09-30 |
| Thanks Microsoft: RadeonSI Enables Async VA-API For Faster Video Acceleration | Mesa | 2022-09-27 |
| Microsoft & Canonical Bring systemd To WSL | systemd | 2022-09-21 |
| Microsoft Lands HEVC Video Encode/Decode Within Mesa Using VA-API To Direct3D 12 | Mesa | 2022-09-15 |
| Weston 11.0 Alpha Released With Many Improvements For This Wayland Compositor | Wayland | 2022-08-10 |
| Microsoft Continues Improving Its Internal Linux Distro With Another Update | Microsoft | 2022-08-05 |
| Microsoft Extends Mesa's D3D12 Video Acceleration To Support Video Engine Based Effects | Mesa | 2022-07-22 |
| Systemd Creator Lands At Microsoft | Microsoft | 2022-07-06 |
| Linux Mint 21 Is Going To Avoid systemd-oomd | Operating Systems | 2022-07-02 |
| Microsoft's CBL-Mariner 2.0 Linux Distro Now Supports Kernel Live Patching, PXE Boot | Microsoft | 2022-06-26 |
| Phoronix Turns 18 Years Old For Covering Linux Hardware | Phoronix | 2022-06-05 |
| Mesa 22.1 Released With Many Vulkan Improvements, Kopper For Zink, Imagination Driver | Mesa | 2022-05-18 |
| Microsoft Lands VA-API To Direct3D 12 H.264 Video Encode/Decode In Mesa | Microsoft | 2022-05-17 |
| "Ubuntu Preview" Makes It Easy To Try The Bleeding-Edge Ubuntu Experience On WSL | Ubuntu | 2022-05-17 |
| Open-Source Firmware For The MSI Alder Lake Motherboard Taking Shape | Hardware | 2022-05-11 |
| Microsoft Issues First Production Release Of Its CBL-Mariner 2.0 Linux Distribution | Microsoft | 2022-05-09 |
| Mesa On Windows Continues Improving: Dzn Dynamic Rendering, WGL Kopper Lands | Mesa | 2022-04-22 |
| Mesa 22.1-rc1 Brings Radeon Vulkan Enhancements, Imagination Driver & Microsoft Dozen | Mesa | 2022-04-14 |
| Open-Source Coreboot Port Working On A Retail Intel Alder Lake MSI Motherboard | Coreboot | 2022-04-12 |
| Steam Deck, Ryzen Servers, Apple M1 On Linux & Milan-X Excited Linux Users In Q1 | Phoronix | 2022-03-31 |
| "Dozen" Merged Into Mesa For Implementing Vulkan On Direct3D 12 | Mesa | 2022-03-25 |
| Microsoft Enables SELinux By Default For CBL-Mariner Linux Distro | Microsoft | 2022-03-20 |
| Microsoft's CBL-Mariner Linux Distro Updated For March With Many Security Fixes | Microsoft | 2022-03-15 |
| Microsoft Has Another Go At Their DirectX Linux Kernel Driver | Microsoft | 2022-03-02 |
| Steam Deck, GNOME 42 Advancements & AMD Linux Updates Excited Readers In February | Phoronix | 2022-03-01 |
| Microsoft Adds Residency Management To Mesa's D3D12 Code For Better Efficiency | Mesa | 2022-02-11 |
| Oracle Linux 8 Now Available From The Microsoft Store | Oracle | 2022-02-06 |
| Microsoft Posts Updated "DXGKRNL" Linux Kernel Driver For WSL/WSA | Microsoft | 2022-02-05 |
| Mesa's "Dozen" Close To Providing Vulkan Over Direct3D 12 | Microsoft | 2022-02-03 |
| Intel Alder Lake & Linux Kernel Advancements Made For An Exciting January | Phoronix | 2022-02-01 |
| Microsoft's Direct3D 12 Code For Mesa Now Supports OpenGL Tessellation Functionality | Microsoft | 2022-01-26 |
| Microsoft Reworks The "DXGKRNL" Driver It Wants To Get Into The Linux Kernel | Microsoft | 2022-01-13 |
| This Year Microsoft Embraced eBPF, Debuted CBL-Mariner, Continued With WSL Features | Microsoft | 2021-12-31 |
| Ubuntu Had A Great Year In Switching To Wayland, Continued Commercial Success | Ubuntu | 2021-12-30 |
| Microsoft's Mesa D3D12 Gallium3D Code Adds Support For OpenGL SSBOs | Microsoft | 2021-12-28 |
| Microsoft Working On Direct3D 12 Video Acceleration For Mesa | Microsoft | 2021-11-22 |
| Proof-Of-Concept Work Brings systemd To Ubuntu WSL | Ubuntu | 2021-11-16 |
| HP To Begin Pre-Loading WSL2 For Windows On Upcoming HP Workstations | Microsoft | 2021-11-09 |
| Intel + Microsoft Bring oneAPI L0 & OpenCL To WSL2 With Open-Source Stack + DXGKRNL | Microsoft | 2021-11-04 |
| Ubuntu Continues Work On Flutter+Dart Written Firmware-Updater Utility | Ubuntu | 2021-11-03 |
| Microsoft Publishes WSL Preview Inside the Windows 11 Store | Microsoft | 2021-10-11 |
| Linux 5.15, AMD / Radeon Advancements, Intel SDSi Dominated Discussions This Month | Phoronix | 2021-10-01 |
| Microsoft Releases Its August Update For The CBL-Mariner Linux Distribution | Microsoft | 2021-09-09 |
| ReactOS "Open-Source Windows" Making Progress On x86_64, Multi-Monitor | Operating Systems | 2021-08-01 |
| LE9, Canonical's Profits, Steam Deck, & Loongson 3A5000 Made For An Exciting July | Phoronix | 2021-08-01 |
| Intel Compute-Runtime 21.30.20482 Brings Initial WSL2 Support | Intel | 2021-07-30 |
| Microsoft's Internal Linux Distribution "CBL-Mariner" Continues Maturing | Microsoft | 2021-07-12 |
| CentOS Stream 9 Builds Flowing, Opened Up For Contributors | Red Hat | 2021-07-06 |
| Microsoft Announces Windows 11 - Benchmarks Against Linux To Begin Soon | Microsoft | 2021-06-24 |
| Mesa 21.2's Direct3D 12 Driver Now Allows For Easy Multi-GPU Selection | Mesa | 2021-06-07 |
| NVIDIA 470.76 WSL Driver Released | NVIDIA | 2021-06-04 |
| Mumblings Of A "Big New" Open-Source GPU Driver Coming... | Hardware | 2021-05-22 |
| Lima: Another Way Of Spinning Up Simple, Integrated Linux VMs on macOS | Virtualization | 2021-05-17 |
| Hypocrite Commits, Rocket Lake Benchmarks, Arch's New Installer Rallied April | Phoronix | 2021-05-01 |
| Microsoft Posts WSLg Preview - GUI App Support With Windows Subsystem For Linux | Microsoft | 2021-04-21 |
| Canonical Releases "Ubuntu on Windows Community Preview" | Ubuntu | 2021-03-31 |
| Mesa 21.0 Released With Numerous RADV Improvements, New Vulkan Extensions, Many Fixes | Mesa | 2021-03-11 |
| NVIDIA 470 Series Driver Looks Like It Will Bring OpenCL 3.0 Support | NVIDIA | 2021-03-09 |
| 11 Features That Didn't Make It In 2020 For Linux 5.11 | Linux Kernel | 2021-01-02 |
| Happy New Year! A Look Back At The Most Popular Phoronix Content Of 2020 | Phoronix | 2020-12-31 |
| The Most Popular NVIDIA Linux News + Milestones Of 2020 | NVIDIA | 2020-12-30 |
| Ubuntu Had A Stellar 2020 From Ubuntu 20.04 LTS To Continued WSL, Cloud Popularity | Ubuntu | 2020-12-29 |
| 2020 Was Another Interesting Year For Microsoft Around Open-Source/Linux | Microsoft | 2020-12-28 |
| Microsoft Adds SPIR-V To DXIL Library In Mesa - With A Focus On WebGPU Support | Microsoft | 2020-12-22 |
| Mesa 21.0 Merges Initial Direct3D 12 Support For WSL | Mesa | 2020-12-16 |
| A Quick Look At The Spectre Mitigation State For AMD Zen 3 On Windows 10 | AMD | 2020-12-05 |
| Microsoft Begins Landing Changes For Cross-Platform Support With Their Mesa D3D12 Code | Microsoft | 2020-12-02 |
| Mesa 21.0 Merges Direct3D 12 Gallium3D Driver | Microsoft | 2020-11-10 |
| It's Now Even Easier Setting Up Windows Subsystem For Linux On Windows 10 | Microsoft | 2020-10-29 |
| Open-Source RADV Vulkan Driver Is Seeing Work To Allow Building It On Windows | Mesa | 2020-10-19 |
| OpenCL 1.2 Support Merged For Mesa's Gallium3D Clover While OpenCL 3.0 Is Being Tackled | Mesa | 2020-10-08 |
| Microsoft Has A Large Presence At This Year's X.Org Conference | X.Org | 2020-09-17 |
| WSL2 Adding Support For Mounting Physical Disks, EXT4 Access And More From Windows | Microsoft | 2020-09-10 |
| Updated NVIDIA CUDA For WSL Brings Better Performance, PTX JIT | NVIDIA | 2020-09-03 |
| Microsoft Is Backporting WSL2 To Their Windows 10 2019 Releases | Microsoft | 2020-08-20 |
| Microsoft Doubles Their Commits To Mesa This Week | Microsoft | 2020-08-18 |
| There Finally Is Work On Shipping Mozilla's WebRender For Some Linux Environments | Mozilla | 2020-07-11 |
| Progress Being Made On OpenCL+OpenGL Over Direct3D 12 | Microsoft | 2020-07-09 |
| OpenSUSE Leap 15.2 Hops Onto The Microsoft Store For WSL/WSL2 | Microsoft | 2020-07-09 |
| CentOS Stream Begins Seeing RHEL 8.3 Bits, Real-Time Repository | Red Hat | 2020-07-07 |
| H.266/VVC Standard Finalized With ~50% Lower Size Compared To H.265 | Standards | 2020-07-06 |
| Raspberry Pi Vulkan, WSL2, Renoir, Linux 5.8 + PHP8 Was Exciting For June | Phoronix | 2020-07-01 |
| An Early Benchmark Of The NVIDIA CUDA GPU Performance On WSL2 | NVIDIA | 2020-06-27 |
| Phoronix Test Suite 9.8 Milestone 2 Released For Open-Source/Linux Benchmarking | Phoronix Test Suite | 2020-06-24 |
| Microsoft Posts Initial DRM Driver For Hyper-V Synthetic Video Device | Microsoft | 2020-06-23 |
| Radeon Software Adrenalin 2020 Edition Updated With WSL Support | Radeon | 2020-06-17 |
| NVIDIA, Intel Post New Windows 10 Graphics Drivers For WSL2 Linux App Support | Microsoft | 2020-06-17 |
| Eight Features Not In Linux 5.8 From The DirectX Kernel Driver To FSGSBASE & DAMON | Linux Kernel | 2020-06-16 |
| Kernel Advancements, Microsoft Linux News Kept Open-Source Fans Entertained In May | Phoronix | 2020-06-02 |
| Microsoft Has Now Open-Source Their BASIC Code From 1983 | Microsoft | 2020-05-21 |
| Microsoft Is Writing Its Own Wayland Compositor As Part Of WSL2 GUI Efforts | Microsoft | 2020-05-20 |
| Mainlining The Microsoft DirectX Kernel Driver For Linux Will Be An Uphill Battle | Microsoft | 2020-05-20 |
| Microsoft And A KDE Project Spar Over "MAUI" | Microsoft | 2020-05-19 |
| Microsoft Announces Direct3D 12 For Linux / WSL2 | Microsoft | 2020-05-19 |
| Microsoft To Support GPU Acceleration, Linux GUI Apps On WSL2 | Microsoft | 2020-05-19 |
