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 |
Microsoft Lands Direct3D 12 Video Encode Improvements For HEVC In Mesa 25.1 | Mesa | 2025-02-04 |
Fedora 42 Cleared To Ship WSL Images For Easy Windows Subsystem For Linux Use | Fedora | 2025-01-13 |
Microsoft Continued With Many Linux & Open-Source Announcements In 2024 | Microsoft | 2024-12-31 |
Intel Compute Runtime Now Advertises Production Support For Battlemage GPUs | Intel | 2024-12-24 |
Redox OS Makes Progress On Emulator Support, Better Documentation & Hardware Fixes | Operating Systems | 2024-12-05 |
Fedora 42 Aims To Enhance The Windows Subsystem For Linux Experience | Fedora | 2024-12-03 |
Apple M4, More AMD Zen 5 Benchmarks & Linux Kernel Drama From November | Phoronix | 2024-12-01 |
Red Hat & Microsoft Bringing RHEL To WSL | Red Hat | 2024-11-19 |
Open-Source Radeon Vulkan Driver "RADV" Demonstrated On Windows | Radeon | 2024-10-16 |
AMD Ryzen 9000 Series Excited Linux Users The Most In Q3 | Hardware | 2024-09-30 |
Intel Compute Runtime Offers "Preview" Support For Lunar Lake | Intel | 2024-09-18 |
Microsoft Further Improves D3D12 Video Acceleration In Mesa | Microsoft | 2024-08-30 |
Microsoft Promotes Azure Linux 3.0 To General Availability | Microsoft | 2024-08-01 |
Linux 6.11, Ryzen AI 300 Series, Open-Source NVIDIA Kernel Driver & Other July News | Phoronix | 2024-08-01 |
OpenBSD Now Supports VA-API Video Acceleration | BSD | 2024-07-23 |
Microsoft's WSL 2.3.11 Brings "Hundreds Of New Kernel Modules" & New Features | Microsoft | 2024-07-17 |
JetBrains IntelliJ-Based IDEs Offer Preview Wayland Support | Wayland | 2024-07-10 |
Microsoft's WSL2 Transitions To Linux 6.6 LTS Kernel | Microsoft | 2024-07-02 |
Kernel Optimizations, XZ, AMD ZLUDA, NOVA, EPYC 4004 & Other H1'2024 Highlights | Phoronix | 2024-06-30 |
Intel Battlemage PCI IDs Being Added To Linux 6.11 For Xe Kernel Graphics Driver | Intel | 2024-06-27 |
Radeon Software For Linux 24.10.3 With ROCm 6.1.3 | Radeon | 2024-06-19 |
AMD Announces ROCm 6.1.3 With Better Multi-GPU Support, Beta-Level WSL2 | AMD | 2024-06-19 |
Linux 6.10-rc4 Released With Another Week Worth Of Driver Fixes | Linux Kernel | 2024-06-16 |
Microsoft Releases Azure Linux 3.0 Preview | Microsoft | 2024-06-06 |
Linux Mint Disabling Unverified Flatpaks By Default | Operating Systems | 2024-06-03 |
NVIDIA Open Kernel Driver News, AMD EPYC 4004 & Linux 6.10 Made For A Fun May | Phoronix | 2024-06-01 |
Microsoft Rolling Out New Windows Subsystem For Linux "WSL" Features For 2024 | Microsoft | 2024-05-30 |
Ubuntu 24.10 To See More Polishing, NVIDIA Wayland By Default & New Welcome Wizard | Ubuntu | 2024-05-17 |
ReactOS "Open-Source Windows" Making Good Strides On SMP CPU Support | Operating Systems | 2024-05-11 |
XZ Backdoor, Nova Driver, Linux 6.9 Features & Ubuntu 24.04 Made For An Exciting April | Phoronix | 2024-05-01 |
Microsoft Updates Cascadia Code: Its Open-Source Font For Developers | Microsoft | 2024-04-30 |
Sovereign Tech Fund Makes New Investments Into GNOME & PHP, Bug Bounty For systemd | Free Software | 2024-04-25 |
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 |