The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source
blogs.windows.com
Today we’re very excited to announce the open-source release of the Windows Subsystem for Linux. This is the result of a multiyear effort to prepare for this, and a great closure to the first ever issue raised on the Microsoft/WSL repo:

Today we’re very excited to announce the open-source release of the Windows Subsystem for Linux. This is the result of a multiyear effort to prepare for this, and a great closure to the first ever issue raised on the Microsoft/WSL repo:

https://github.com/microsoft/WSL

  • @[email protected]English
    14•1 month ago

    Ah, the Linux Subsystem for Windows (MSFT has never been great at naming things) is finally open source, hooray…

    Now do it with rest of the operating system, and I may, possibly have a reason to care.

    • PhoenixzEnglish
      6•1 month ago

      Windows, you mean? Please no, thanks, I don’t need to see anything of that garbage

    • @[email protected]English
      7•1 month ago

      But it is not a “Linux Subsystem”, it is a “Windows Subsystem”.

      If I write a hypothetical Driver for Linux to support windows, it would be a “Linux Module” not a “Windows Module”.

      I guess they could have called it “Windows Subsystem for Linux support”

      • @[email protected]English
        1•1 month ago

        And is that subsystem for windows or for Linux?

        Like…how do you find the zoom release for Linux? I thinks it’s very stable and now and very comparable to the version available for widows.