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Message   VRSS    All   Microsoft Open Sources Windows Subsystem for Linux   May 19, 2025
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Title: Microsoft Open Sources Windows Subsystem for Linux

Link: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/05/19/1654...

Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) is now open source, Microsoft said Monday.
The tool, which allows developers to run Linux distributions directly in
Windows, is available for download, modification, and contribution. "We want
Windows to be a great dev box," said Pavan Davuluri, corporate VP at
Microsoft. "Having great WSL performance and capabilities" allows developers
"to live in the Windows-native experience and take advantage of all they need
in Linux." First launched in 2016 with an emulated Linux kernel, WSL switched
to using the actual Linux kernel in 2019 with WSL 2, improving compatibility.
The system has since gained support for GPUs, graphical applications, and
systemd. Microsoft significantly refactored core Windows components to make
WSL a standalone system before open sourcing it.

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