The only thing I find surprising about this is that it took so long. WSL will never be popular with the hoi polloi, but sysadmins and developers love being able to run Linux on their office Windows ...

Yes, Microsoft is making it much easier to run the Bash shell, based on Ubuntu, and soon SUSE or Fedora, on Windows 10. No, hell hasn't frozen over. After testing the waters for years, Microsoft has ...

Details on Microsoft's support for the Bash shell on Windows have surfaced after its initial Build keynote announcement. The Bash shell actually is the native Bash command line tool running on Windows ...

The good news is that there's a fast, highly customizable, and easy-to-use shell on Windows that'll let you experience your terminal in all its 24-bit color glory. And if you use the Windows command ...

Microsoft has become more focused on offering choices and including open source software options. That’s why it wasn’t much of a surprise when Microsoft announced during the Build keynote that ...

Microsoft explained a little more about its support for the Bash shell on Windows, as unveiled during its Build keynote talk on Wednesday. The Bash shell actually is the native Bash command line tool ...

Linux shells might appear similar to the Command Prompt, but if you're coming from the Windows command line, there's a lot to ...

Microsoft hasn't had time to incorporate the most requested user features for its new Ubuntu Bash shell for Windows 10 yet, but developers in the free Windows Insider program can now play around with ...

Microsoft said it wouldn’t support graphical applications in Bash on Windows. But enterprising geeks like w2qw on Reddit have already figured out how to run graphical applications with Bash on Windows ...

Microsoft today surprised developers by announcing it was bringing the Bash shell -- long a mainstay tool for Linux-based development -- to Windows 10. The news was delivered to audience applause by ...