External package sources must prove trustworthy in the future. It also features a Linux sandbox and a faster default API.

Homebrew 6.0.0 shipped June 11 with tap trust, a mechanism that blocks arbitrary Ruby code from third-party taps until ...

The name "container machine" is intended to convey that the feature combines both a container and a VM. The feature uses ...

Microsoft has released Coreutils for Windows, allowing a stack of familiar "Linux-like" command-line utilities to run ...

TL;DR Introduction At the start of this year, I wrote a blog on how 2025 was the ‘year of the infostealer’, and it doesn’t ...

Proton Drive now has a command line interface (CLI) on Windows, Mac, and Linux that's built on the new Proton Drive SDK.

As well as Coreutils, the Build 2026 developer conference also saw Microsoft announce WSL containers CLI and API to deploy ...

Steve Ballmer’s darkest fear has come to pass: Linux has worked itself into the deepest innards of Microsoft Windows itself. At the company’s annual Build developer conference this week, Microsoft ...

Previously, I looked at using the Linux video loopback system from the command line. The basic trick was simple enough: capture video from a real camera, process it with something like ffmpeg, and ...

Microsoft is embracing Linux-like command line utilities and integrating its Linux subsystem even further into Windows.

Microsoft's Build 2026 Windows developer announcements point to a broader platform strategy for agentic AI, spanning terminal workflows, local models, app-building skills, Cloud PCs and operating ...

Microsoft is bringing Linux-style Coreutils and native WSL containers to Windows to simplify developer workflows.