wsl

WSL 2 is receiving a performance improvement where each virtio device gets its own dedicated DMA (SWIOTLB) pool, eliminating contention on the virtiofs path for cross-OS file access between Windows and Linux. This change, merged in May 2026, is the latest in a series of incremental improvements to Windows/Linux file I/O performance in WSL 2.

Microsoft announces new developer features for Windows at Build 2026, including Coreutils for Windows, WSL containers, an Intelligent Terminal, and the Microsoft Execution Containers (MXC) SDK for secure agent execution.

Microsoft announced a developer-optimized Windows 11 experience at Build, including Coreutils for Windows (native Linux-like utilities), WSL containers for easy Linux container management, an experimental Intelligent Terminal with AI integration, and Windows Developer Configurations for quick setup.

llama.cpp Console is a Windows desktop app that provides a GUI for managing llama.cpp in WSL/Ubuntu, handling installation, building, model downloading, and serving.