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

  • Buckshot@programming.devEnglish
    141·
    4 days ago

    This is my thought, they’ve all but lost the battle for cloud servers and they’d rather the developers computers were Windows. WSL allows that.

    • Overspark@feddit.nlEnglish
      5·
      4 days ago

      Poorly. WSL is awesome but it’s I/O performance is not at a level which will make developers on bigger projects happy.

      • ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        4·
        4 days ago

        Yeah but imagine if they could collect licence fees after every AWS server as well.

        The world is not enough for these companies.