Microsoft has released WSL Containers in public preview, giving Windows developers a built-in way to build, run, and manage Linux containers without relying on Docker Desktop for many common workflows ...

Microsoft's WSL team has confirmed WSL 3 doesn't exist. It was mistaken for WSL Containers, which is arriving in few days as ...

Minimalist systems taught me that distros are not different operating systems but mere configurations, whether server- or ...

If you don’t use Linux the way it’s meant to be used, you’re basically swimming against the current and wondering why you’re ...

Microsoft is delivering tools to quickly configure Windows PCs as workstations for Windows and Linux development.

Secure Boot has always been a nuisance for Linux users, but Microsoft's expiring 2011 certificate authorities are making it a ...

If you use Windows today and type ls, cat, grep, or awk in a terminal, there is a good chance something useful will happen. That was not always true. For most of the history of personal computing, ...

After the CopyFail vulnerability gave root access from any user on almost all distributions last week, this week we’ve got DirtyFrag. This chains the vulnerability in CopyFail (xfrm-ESP) and a new ...

On April 29, 2026, security researchers at Theori and Xint Code publicly disclosed CVE-2026-31431, a Linux kernel privilege escalation vulnerability they named Copy Fail. Any unprivileged local user ...

Ubuntu dropped the Startup Applications tool in 2025, but you can still make a script or command auto-run at login – it’s just a more involved now there’s no fancy GUI to do it. But the new method ...

Check out the usage information below for arguments. The basic idea is to take an unmodified Ubuntu ISO image, extract it, add some kernel command line parameters, then repack the data into a new ISO.

BASH is a Unix shell and command language which can run Shell Script files. You do not need to install Ubuntu or any other Linux Distros unless your scripts need the ...