Last August I wrote about maintaining backward compatibility to versions of Windows from 15 years ago while supporting new features of Windows Vista. Several of you had trouble believing I would ...

Someone saw a 30-year-old OS and thought it needed a Linux subsystem.

With the RAM and storage crisis hitting personal computing very hard – along with new software increasingly suffering the effects of metastasizing ‘AI’ – more people than ever are pining for the ‘good ...

Microsoft introduced a Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) with Windows 10. Initially it allowed you to run command line Linux utilities in Windows, but over time Microsoft added support for ...

A computer tinkerer and hacker has posted a tool called WSL9x on Codeberg and taken to social media to boast that it might be “one of my greatest hacks of all time.” Hailey shared a summary of WSL9x ...

Considering that Windows NT has the concept of so-called ‘subsystems’ whereby you can run different systems side-by-side, starting with the POSIX subsystem and later the Windows Subsystem for Linux ...

This is an extension of the topic that I just created about g++, but I thought I would create a new thread so that this question would be addressed better. I need to change the PATH variable to ...