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Microsoft’s Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open-source (www.theverge.com)
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Microsoft is making its Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) open-source today, opening up the code for community members to contribute to. After launching WSL for Windows 10 nearly nine years ago, it has been a multiyear effort at Microsoft to open-source the feature that enables a Linux environment within Windows.

“It has been a consistent request from the developer community for some time now,” says Windows chief Pavan Davuluri in an interview with The Verge. “It took us a little bit of time, because we needed to refactor the operating system to allow WSL to live in a standalone capacity that then allowed us to open-source the project and be able to have developers go and make contributions and for us to ingest those into the Windows pipeline and ship it at scale.”

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[–] ABetterTomorrow@lemm.ee 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Cool, so the main fork would be (LSW) Linux subsystem for Windows. No wants you anymore Windows.

[–] Laser@feddit.org 1 points 7 months ago

The equivalent to WSL is Wine, but it's not Linux-specific. However, it's architecturally much closer to WSL 1 than to the current WSL 2.