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Re:Testing the Windows Subsystem for Linux by yakk0 on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @09:52AM (#14097642)
it's the subsystem for running Linux. It's not actually Linux, and after enabling the subsystem you still have to actually get the Ubutntu image. That image is the Linux part.
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Re:Testing the Windows Subsystem for Linux by Someone1234 on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @10:33AM (#14098034)
We all understand how it works. Repeating that is unconstructive.

It is a bad name that is bad English. It was bad when it was "Windows Services for UNIX" too as an aside.

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Re:Testing the Windows Subsystem for Linux by JdeBP on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @02:03PM (#14100133)
Note that this subsystem never actually was "Windows Services for UNIX". That was another subsystem, another personality on top of the Windows NT kernel.
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Re:Testing the Windows Subsystem for Linux by Someone1234 on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @03:50PM (#14101111)
Per context, "it" was the name of the thing. "It" (the name) was a bad name then and is a bad name now.
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