Developers can now download the code, contribute bug fixes and new features, and participate in WSL's development.

The announcement closes a nearly nine-year-old request from the developer community, and signals a new era of collaboration ...

Developers can now look under the hood at the component that allows a Linux environment to run within Windows.

Microsoft has open-sourced the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), making its source code available on GitHub, except for a ...

Microsoft is making its Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) open-source today, opening up the code for community members to ...

Microsoft releases its Windows subsystem for Linux as an open source project and invites the community to develop it. However ...

Microsoft's Windows Subsystem for Linux has become an important tool for developers and power users since it was introduced ...

At its Build 2025 conference, Microsoft open-sourced a number of apps and tools, including a new command-line text editor for ...