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

submitted 5 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 days ago (4 children)

Pretend I'm an idiot (should be easy), and tell me what this all is up in here.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days 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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days 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"

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (5 children)

can some one ELI5.... is this a way for me to run windows stuff using linux? OR is this for linux stuff to run in windows?

I really want an easier way to run windows stuff in linux, my hatred grows with every notification, update, attempt to advertise to me, and interference in my workspace. but trialing mint is great but the ultimate test is failing with a few programs not really playing nice with linux.