Not every distro is suited for every job.

Experience the best of both worlds with WSL, a lightweight and efficient solution for running Linux on Windows.

I will show that it's possible to install, configure, and use this Linux distribution with absolutely no command-line access. Read now Chromebook users may soon have a simpler way to run their ...

Ubuntu maintainer Canonical and Microsoft have teamed up to release an optimized Ubuntu Desktop image that's available through Microsoft's Hyper-V gallery. The Ubuntu Desktop image should deliver a ...

To enable organizations and developers to more easily and flexibly create and deploy on premises and cloud applications, Oracle has announced that Oracle VM VirtualBox 5.0, the latest release of the ...

Organizations can now use their Azure Active Directory credentials to log into a Linux-based virtual machine (VM) running on Microsoft's Azure public cloud service. The new capability is available via ...

Developers love containers. They’re easy to use and fast to start. You can run a lot of them on even simple hardware. Startup overhead has always been a bane of development and testing, and this ...

Linux enthusiasts might think the idea of running a Linux virtual machine on Microsoft's Azure service is like finding a penguin sun tanning in the Sahara. Linux in the heart of the Microsoft cloud?