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

  • The_Decryptor@aussie.zoneEnglish
    7·
    8 hours ago

    Not like you can fork it to run on a different OS.

    For WSL1? yep that’s effectively impossible.

    WSL2 is effectively just a wrapper around the kernel virtualization support and a bundling format, as long as whatever image you run talks to the host properly (like any other virtualised OS would) it’d run.

    • TerHu@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      2 hours ago

      does that mean we could build a wsl that provides the flatpak environment, so that we could get a one click install flatpak for windows?