Yesterday, packages.microsoft.com—the repository from which Microsoft serves software installers for Linux distributions including CentOS, Debian, Fedora, OpenSUSE, and more—went down hard, and it ...

This week, Microsoft's Linux package repositories suffered an hours-long outage, followed by performance issues spanning over a day. Users relying on the packages.microsoft.com repository to pull ...

How to install and configure the fast and lightweight container host Linux distribution for Azure Kubernetes Service and the Microsoft Container Registry. Microsoft’s CBL-Mariner Linux distribution is ...

Tired of Windows? Sick of paying big money for Macs? Want a better, more secure desktop? Give Linux a try. Read now Microsoft's Linux Group has been fairly public about its work on a Microsoft-created ...

is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. 10 years ago, Zemlin was calling for Microsoft to stop secretly attacking Linux by ...

Think of Microsoft and Linux, and you’re likely to think about its work building an optimized Linux kernel for the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). Pushed out through Windows update, Microsoft ...

Microsoft this week announced that its own full Linux kernel will power WSL2, the newest version of the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). This marks the first time that Microsoft will include the ...

It took Microsoft long enough, but the company has finally open-sourced its Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) code. The announcement was made at the Build 2025 developer conference, closing a nearly ...