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The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source. (blogs.windows.com)
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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

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[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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.

[–] cmhe@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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"

[–] diviledabit@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day 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.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day ago

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