Microsoft has announced the general availability of Coreutils for Windows 11 which allows for the running of Linux-like commands on Windows. The aim is to make life easier for developers, saving them ...

This last week, I replaced WSL with Microsoft's Coreutils for my daily work. This meant natively running commands like ls, grep, find, cat, and the rest on Windows; the same commands I use on Linux.

Microsoft has made WSL containers generally available on Windows 11. The native tool gives developers a built-in alternative to third-party software like Docker Desktop.

Microsoft announced today at its Build 2026 developer conference the release of Coreutils for Windows, bringing many commonly used Linux command-line utilities to Windows as native applications. The ...

Microsoft has announced Coreutils, a new Windows 11 feature that allows developers to run many popular Linux command line utilities natively on Windows from a single binary. Revealed at this week’s ...

Ben Stockton is a freelance technology writer from the United Kingdom who has been writing about technology since 2018. Before that, he was a UK college lecturer, teaching adults and teenagers about ...