is a senior correspondent and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft is starting to allow Windows 10 testers to access Linux GUI apps.

Windows 10's Windows System for Linux (WSL) will soon let developers run Linux GUI apps, while Linux guests on Windows will soon gain access to GPU power for hardware acceleration. WSL is currently ...

For a company that once painted Linux and open source as cancers, Microsoft has been doing a lot in the past years to embrace both. It's not going to be an open source company, of course, and many ...

I stopped switching apps the day I learned to pipe commands.

At Build 2020 today, Microsoft gave developers a slew of new tools to coax them into using Windows over macOS or Linux. Windows Terminal is now out of preview for enterprises, and Windows Subsystem ...

Moe enjoys making technical content digestible and fun. As a writer and editor for over a decade, he has bylines at MakeUseOf, WhistleOut, TechBeacon, DZone, Tech Up Your Life, and Electromaker. When ...

If you need to spin up a quick Linux desktop for development or testing purposes, one of the easiest is with a new tool called Distrobox. Jack Wallen shows you how. I frequently need to spin up a ...

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 ...

The latest trends and issues around the use of open source software in the enterprise. Arguably best-known VPN company around right now NordVPN has updated its Linux application. Updates feature the ...

In today's open source roundup: Six GUI firewall management applications in Linux. Plus: Linux Lite 2.2 released, and the story of how Kali Linux was created The command line is a powerful tool for ...

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