Install a complete Ubuntu terminal environment in minutes with Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). Develop cross-platform applications, improve your data science or web development workflows and manage IT infrastructure without leaving Windows.
Key features:
- Efficient command line utilities including bash, ssh, git, apt, npm, pip and many more
- Manage Docker containers with improved performance and startup times
- Leverage GPU acceleration for AI/ML workloads with NVIDIA CUDA
- A consistent development to deployment workflow when using Ubuntu in the cloud
- 5 years of security patching with Ubuntu Long Term Support (LTS) releases
For more information about Ubuntu WSL and how Canonical supports developers please visit:
These are the applications we develop and maintain:
- Ubuntu ships the latest stable LTS release of Ubuntu. When new LTS versions are released, Ubuntu can be upgraded once the first point release is available
- Ubuntu 18.04.5 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04.5 LTS, Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS are the LTS versions of Ubuntu and receive updates for five years. Upgrades to future LTS releases will not be proposed.
- Ubuntu (Preview) is a daily build of the latest development version of Ubuntu previewing new features as they are developed. It does not receive the same level of QA as stable releases and should not be used for production workloads.
This repository contains code relevant to Ubuntu on WSL. It builds on top of Microsoft's reference implementation. Head there for any documentation needs.
You are welcome to create a new issue on this repository if you find bugs you believe may be particular to Ubuntu running on WSL.
Feel free to otherwise head over to Microsoft's WSL page on GitHub if your report is not specific to Ubuntu but rather more general to WSL.
We also have a page on Launchpad; we check it less often but you may find part of the community there. Ubuntu's Discourse page has news and interesting discussions about Ubuntu on WSL.