WSL2 Articles & Reviews |
| The Performance Cost To Ubuntu WSL2 On Windows 11 25H2 | Operating Systems | 2025-09-15 |
| Windows 11 WSL2 Performance vs. Ubuntu Linux With The AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D | Operating Systems | 2023-04-26 |
| Windows 11 WSL2 Performance Is Quite Competitive Against Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / Ubuntu 21.10 | Operating Systems | 2021-09-29 |
| An Early Look At Windows 11 WSL2 Performance Against Ubuntu Linux | Operating Systems | 2021-07-06 |
| Windows Subsystem For Linux / WSL2 Performance With The AMD Ryzen 9 5900X | Operating Systems | 2020-12-16 |
| Ubuntu 20.04 vs. Windows 10 WSL/WSL2 Performance In 170+ Benchmarks | Operating Systems | 2020-06-24 |
| Windows 10 May 2020 Performance For WSL vs. WSL2 | Operating Systems | 2020-06-17 |
| Windows Subsystem For Linux Performance At The End Of 2019 | Operating Systems | 2019-12-11 |
| Initial Benchmarks Of Microsoft's WSL2 - Windows Subsystem For Linux 2 On Windows 10 Is A Mixed Bag | Operating Systems | 2019-06-14 |
WSL2 Linux & Open-Source News |
| AMD Expands ROCm Support On Windows WSL To More Ryzen Hardware | AMD | 2026-05-06 |
| Microsoft Upgrades Its WSL2 Kernel Against Linux 6.18 LTS | Microsoft | 2026-04-11 |
| The Integrated ROCm Story For Ubuntu 26.04 Still Playing Out | Ubuntu | 2026-03-31 |
| AMD Improves GPU Support Under WSL With Production Open-Source ROCDXG | Radeon | 2026-03-30 |
| Microsoft's DXGKRNL Driver Updated For Linux - Many Changes After Four Years | Microsoft | 2026-03-19 |
| Windows WSL 2.7.0 Released With Newer Linux 6.6 LTS Point Release, Many Fixes | Microsoft | 2025-12-11 |
| Canonical Now Offering Ubuntu Pro For WSL | Ubuntu | 2025-12-02 |
| Intel Arc Pro B50, Raspberry Pi 500+, Strix Halo & Other September Highlights | Phoronix | 2025-10-01 |
| Ryzen AI Max+ With Framework Desktop, File-System Tests & EPYC 4005 Dominated Q3 | Phoronix | 2025-09-29 |
| Fish Shell 4.0.6 Released With Many Fixes | Free Software | 2025-09-12 |
| WSL2 Vulnerability Could Lead To Elevating Local Privileges | Microsoft | 2025-08-13 |
| Windows Subsystem For Linux "WSL" Updated For A Yet-To-Be-Public Security Vulnerability | Microsoft | 2025-08-06 |
| Microsoft Releases WSL 2.6 As The First Open-Source Release | Microsoft | 2025-06-20 |
| Microsoft Welcomes Fedora Linux As An Official WSL Distro | Microsoft | 2025-05-06 |
| Microsoft Lands Direct3D 12 Video Encode Improvements For HEVC In Mesa 25.1 | Mesa | 2025-02-04 |
| Fedora 42 Cleared To Ship WSL Images For Easy Windows Subsystem For Linux Use | Fedora | 2025-01-13 |
| Microsoft Continued With Many Linux & Open-Source Announcements In 2024 | Microsoft | 2024-12-31 |
| Fedora 42 Aims To Enhance The Windows Subsystem For Linux Experience | Fedora | 2024-12-03 |
| Open-Source Radeon Vulkan Driver "RADV" Demonstrated On Windows | Radeon | 2024-10-16 |
| AMD Ryzen 9000 Series Excited Linux Users The Most In Q3 | Hardware | 2024-09-30 |
| Linux 6.11, Ryzen AI 300 Series, Open-Source NVIDIA Kernel Driver & Other July News | Phoronix | 2024-08-01 |
| Microsoft's WSL 2.3.11 Brings "Hundreds Of New Kernel Modules" & New Features | Microsoft | 2024-07-17 |
| Microsoft's WSL2 Transitions To Linux 6.6 LTS Kernel | Microsoft | 2024-07-02 |
| Kernel Optimizations, XZ, AMD ZLUDA, NOVA, EPYC 4004 & Other H1'2024 Highlights | Phoronix | 2024-06-30 |
| Radeon Software For Linux 24.10.3 With ROCm 6.1.3 | Radeon | 2024-06-19 |
| AMD Announces ROCm 6.1.3 With Better Multi-GPU Support, Beta-Level WSL2 | AMD | 2024-06-19 |
| NVIDIA Open Kernel Driver News, AMD EPYC 4004 & Linux 6.10 Made For A Fun May | Phoronix | 2024-06-01 |
| Microsoft Rolling Out New Windows Subsystem For Linux "WSL" Features For 2024 | Microsoft | 2024-05-30 |
| Microsoft Enables DNS Tunneling By Default For WSL - More Reliable Networking | Microsoft | 2024-03-22 |
| Microsoft's DirectX Shader Compiler Sees Improved Linux Build Support | Microsoft | 2024-03-11 |
| Intel Extension For PyTorch Now Officially Supports Arc A-Series Graphics | Intel | 2024-02-23 |
| Microsoft Continued Advancing WSL2, Mesa & Its In-House Linux Distro In 2023 | Microsoft | 2024-01-03 |
| AMD CPU Use By Linux Gamers At ~70%, AMD openSIL, & AMD Laptops Topped 2023 | AMD | 2024-01-01 |
| Raspberry Pi 5 & New AMD Ryzen CPUs Excited Linux Readers The Most In 2023 | Phoronix | 2023-12-27 |
| Microsoft Adds Enterprise Security Features To WSL | Microsoft | 2023-11-16 |
| Microsoft Releases A Big Update To Windows Subsystem For Linux, New Experimental Options | Microsoft | 2023-09-18 |
| Microsoft Adds Direct3D 12 Powered AV1 Video Encoding To Mesa | Microsoft | 2023-06-28 |
| WSL 1.3.10 Brings Experimental Memory Reclaim, Updated DXCore & Linux Kernel | Microsoft | 2023-06-14 |
| AMD RX 7600, Intel X86-S & Other Exciting Linux/Open-Source News From May | Phoronix | 2023-06-01 |
| Linux Features Loved By Microsoft Engineers Working On WSL2 | Microsoft | 2023-05-14 |
| Silly Open-Source Moves, AMD openSIL & Rust Happenings Made For An Interesting Month | Phoronix | 2023-04-30 |
| Microsoft Releases WinGet 1.4 For Improving Its Open-Source Package Manager | Microsoft | 2023-01-23 |
| Microsoft Begins Providing DirectX Shader Compiler Linux Binaries | Microsoft | 2022-12-18 |
| AMD EPYC Genoa, Linux 6.1 & Rust Efforts Excited Linux Users In November | Phoronix | 2022-12-01 |
| Microsoft Promotes Windows Subsystem For Linux "WSL" To GA Status | Microsoft | 2022-11-22 |
| Mesa 22.3-rc1 Released With Rusticl, Many Intel & Radeon Vulkan Driver Improvements | Mesa | 2022-11-02 |
| Intel Extension For TensorFlow Released - Provides Intel GPU Acceleration | Intel | 2022-10-28 |
| Microsoft Adds Mesa Support For Building Against The DirectX 12 Agility SDK | Microsoft | 2022-10-21 |
| Microsoft Promotes Its Open-Source Terminal To The Default For Windows 11 CLI Apps | Microsoft | 2022-10-18 |
| AMD Ryzen 7000 Series, Linux 6.0, MGLRU, Rust & IO_uring Made For An Exciting September | Phoronix | 2022-10-01 |
| Microsoft Adds AV1 Decode Support To Their Mesa D3D12 Driver | Microsoft | 2022-09-30 |
| Microsoft & Canonical Bring systemd To WSL | systemd | 2022-09-21 |
| Microsoft Lands HEVC Video Encode/Decode Within Mesa Using VA-API To Direct3D 12 | Mesa | 2022-09-15 |
| Microsoft Extends Mesa's D3D12 Video Acceleration To Support Video Engine Based Effects | Mesa | 2022-07-22 |
| Mesa 22.1 Released With Many Vulkan Improvements, Kopper For Zink, Imagination Driver | Mesa | 2022-05-18 |
| "Ubuntu Preview" Makes It Easy To Try The Bleeding-Edge Ubuntu Experience On WSL | Ubuntu | 2022-05-17 |
| Mesa On Windows Continues Improving: Dzn Dynamic Rendering, WGL Kopper Lands | Mesa | 2022-04-22 |
| Mesa 22.1-rc1 Brings Radeon Vulkan Enhancements, Imagination Driver & Microsoft Dozen | Mesa | 2022-04-14 |
| Steam Deck, Ryzen Servers, Apple M1 On Linux & Milan-X Excited Linux Users In Q1 | Phoronix | 2022-03-31 |
| "Dozen" Merged Into Mesa For Implementing Vulkan On Direct3D 12 | Mesa | 2022-03-25 |
| Microsoft Has Another Go At Their DirectX Linux Kernel Driver | Microsoft | 2022-03-02 |
| Microsoft Adds Residency Management To Mesa's D3D12 Code For Better Efficiency | Mesa | 2022-02-11 |
| Oracle Linux 8 Now Available From The Microsoft Store | Oracle | 2022-02-06 |
| Microsoft Posts Updated "DXGKRNL" Linux Kernel Driver For WSL/WSA | Microsoft | 2022-02-05 |
| Mesa's "Dozen" Close To Providing Vulkan Over Direct3D 12 | Microsoft | 2022-02-03 |
| Intel Alder Lake & Linux Kernel Advancements Made For An Exciting January | Phoronix | 2022-02-01 |
| Microsoft's Direct3D 12 Code For Mesa Now Supports OpenGL Tessellation Functionality | Microsoft | 2022-01-26 |
| Microsoft Reworks The "DXGKRNL" Driver It Wants To Get Into The Linux Kernel | Microsoft | 2022-01-13 |
| This Year Microsoft Embraced eBPF, Debuted CBL-Mariner, Continued With WSL Features | Microsoft | 2021-12-31 |
| Ubuntu Had A Great Year In Switching To Wayland, Continued Commercial Success | Ubuntu | 2021-12-30 |
| Microsoft Working On Direct3D 12 Video Acceleration For Mesa | Microsoft | 2021-11-22 |
| Proof-Of-Concept Work Brings systemd To Ubuntu WSL | Ubuntu | 2021-11-16 |
| HP To Begin Pre-Loading WSL2 For Windows On Upcoming HP Workstations | Microsoft | 2021-11-09 |
| Intel + Microsoft Bring oneAPI L0 & OpenCL To WSL2 With Open-Source Stack + DXGKRNL | Microsoft | 2021-11-04 |
| Ubuntu Continues Work On Flutter+Dart Written Firmware-Updater Utility | Ubuntu | 2021-11-03 |
| Microsoft Publishes WSL Preview Inside the Windows 11 Store | Microsoft | 2021-10-11 |
| Linux 5.15, AMD / Radeon Advancements, Intel SDSi Dominated Discussions This Month | Phoronix | 2021-10-01 |
| LE9, Canonical's Profits, Steam Deck, & Loongson 3A5000 Made For An Exciting July | Phoronix | 2021-08-01 |
| Intel Compute-Runtime 21.30.20482 Brings Initial WSL2 Support | Intel | 2021-07-30 |
| Microsoft Announces Windows 11 - Benchmarks Against Linux To Begin Soon | Microsoft | 2021-06-24 |
| NVIDIA 470.76 WSL Driver Released | NVIDIA | 2021-06-04 |
| Mumblings Of A "Big New" Open-Source GPU Driver Coming... | Hardware | 2021-05-22 |
| Hypocrite Commits, Rocket Lake Benchmarks, Arch's New Installer Rallied April | Phoronix | 2021-05-01 |
| Microsoft Posts WSLg Preview - GUI App Support With Windows Subsystem For Linux | Microsoft | 2021-04-21 |
| Canonical Releases "Ubuntu on Windows Community Preview" | Ubuntu | 2021-03-31 |
| Happy New Year! A Look Back At The Most Popular Phoronix Content Of 2020 | Phoronix | 2020-12-31 |
| The Most Popular NVIDIA Linux News + Milestones Of 2020 | NVIDIA | 2020-12-30 |
| Ubuntu Had A Stellar 2020 From Ubuntu 20.04 LTS To Continued WSL, Cloud Popularity | Ubuntu | 2020-12-29 |
| 2020 Was Another Interesting Year For Microsoft Around Open-Source/Linux | Microsoft | 2020-12-28 |
| Mesa 21.0 Merges Initial Direct3D 12 Support For WSL | Mesa | 2020-12-16 |
| Mesa 21.0 Merges Direct3D 12 Gallium3D Driver | Microsoft | 2020-11-10 |
| Open-Source RADV Vulkan Driver Is Seeing Work To Allow Building It On Windows | Mesa | 2020-10-19 |
| OpenCL 1.2 Support Merged For Mesa's Gallium3D Clover While OpenCL 3.0 Is Being Tackled | Mesa | 2020-10-08 |
| Microsoft Has A Large Presence At This Year's X.Org Conference | X.Org | 2020-09-17 |
| WSL2 Adding Support For Mounting Physical Disks, EXT4 Access And More From Windows | Microsoft | 2020-09-10 |
| Updated NVIDIA CUDA For WSL Brings Better Performance, PTX JIT | NVIDIA | 2020-09-03 |
| Microsoft Is Backporting WSL2 To Their Windows 10 2019 Releases | Microsoft | 2020-08-20 |
| Microsoft Doubles Their Commits To Mesa This Week | Microsoft | 2020-08-18 |
| Progress Being Made On OpenCL+OpenGL Over Direct3D 12 | Microsoft | 2020-07-09 |
| OpenSUSE Leap 15.2 Hops Onto The Microsoft Store For WSL/WSL2 | Microsoft | 2020-07-09 |
| Raspberry Pi Vulkan, WSL2, Renoir, Linux 5.8 + PHP8 Was Exciting For June | Phoronix | 2020-07-01 |
| An Early Benchmark Of The NVIDIA CUDA GPU Performance On WSL2 | NVIDIA | 2020-06-27 |
| Phoronix Test Suite 9.8 Milestone 2 Released For Open-Source/Linux Benchmarking | Phoronix Test Suite | 2020-06-24 |
| Microsoft Posts Initial DRM Driver For Hyper-V Synthetic Video Device | Microsoft | 2020-06-23 |
| Radeon Software Adrenalin 2020 Edition Updated With WSL Support | Radeon | 2020-06-17 |
| NVIDIA, Intel Post New Windows 10 Graphics Drivers For WSL2 Linux App Support | Microsoft | 2020-06-17 |
| Eight Features Not In Linux 5.8 From The DirectX Kernel Driver To FSGSBASE & DAMON | Linux Kernel | 2020-06-16 |
| Kernel Advancements, Microsoft Linux News Kept Open-Source Fans Entertained In May | Phoronix | 2020-06-02 |
| Microsoft Has Now Open-Source Their BASIC Code From 1983 | Microsoft | 2020-05-21 |
| Microsoft Is Writing Its Own Wayland Compositor As Part Of WSL2 GUI Efforts | Microsoft | 2020-05-20 |
| Mainlining The Microsoft DirectX Kernel Driver For Linux Will Be An Uphill Battle | Microsoft | 2020-05-20 |
| Microsoft And A KDE Project Spar Over "MAUI" | Microsoft | 2020-05-19 |
| Microsoft Announces Direct3D 12 For Linux / WSL2 | Microsoft | 2020-05-19 |
| Microsoft To Support GPU Acceleration, Linux GUI Apps On WSL2 | Microsoft | 2020-05-19 |
| Watch Out: Microsoft Windows WSL1 Currently Borked With Ubuntu 20.04 | Ubuntu | 2020-04-12 |
| Apple Using Rust, exFAT, Ryzen Laptops, Ubuntu 20.04 Advances + Other Hits From March | Phoronix | 2020-03-31 |
| WSL2 Reaching General Availability In Windows 10 v2004 | Microsoft | 2020-03-14 |
| Microsoft Made More Linux / Open-Source Announcements In 2019 From exFAT To WSL2 | Microsoft | 2019-12-19 |
| Microsoft's WSL2 Now Supports Memory Reclamation | Microsoft | 2019-10-31 |
| Windows' WSL2 Now Allows Localhost Access, Custom Kernels | Microsoft | 2019-07-27 |
| Ubuntu-WSL Package Offers Better Ubuntu Integration On Windows Subsystem For Linux | Ubuntu | 2019-07-16 |
| Radeon Graphics, Zombieload & Kernel Changes Intrigued Open-Source Fans In H1-2019 | Phoronix | 2019-07-09 |
| Microsoft Aiming For A Linux Development Workflow Around WSL + VS Code Remote | Microsoft | 2019-07-06 |
| Ubuntu Drama, Clear Linux Speed & WSL2 Sparked Lots Of Interest In June | Phoronix | 2019-07-01 |
| Microsoft Releases First Preview Of Windows Terminal | Microsoft | 2019-06-22 |
| Microsoft Begins Rolling Out Windows Subsystem For Linux 2 | Microsoft | 2019-06-13 |
| Microsoft Confirms WSL To Co-Exist With WSL2, Other Windows Subsystem for Linux Details | Microsoft | 2019-05-13 |
| More Details On Microsoft's WSL2 Implementation For Running Linux Binaries On Windows 10 | Microsoft | 2019-05-09 |
| Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 To Offer Faster I/O Performance, Native Docker Containers | Microsoft | 2019-05-06 |
