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Microsoft Promotes Windows Subsystem For Linux "WSL" To GA Status

Phoronix - Wed, 11/23/2022 - 07:13
While the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) has been around for six years now and with WSL2 is on to running graphical Linux apps with GPU acceleration and a wide array of capabilities, including the ability to run systemd and the like, only today has Microsoft promoted WSL to "general availability" status on Windows 10 and Windows 11...

Alpine Linux 3.17 Released With OpenSSL 3.0, Better Rust Support

Phoronix - Wed, 11/23/2022 - 03:09
Alpine Linux as the distro that is focused on being lightweight, simple, and secure with its use of OpenRC, BusyBox, musl libc, and other components is out with a big update...

Asahi Linux Project Makes Progress On USB3, Toward Speaker Support, Keyboard Backlight

Phoronix - Wed, 11/23/2022 - 02:10
The Asahi Linux crew has published their November 2022 status report highlighting recent open-source progress on supporting Apple Silicon M1/M2 devices under Linux...

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