Re:Amazon’s Chips Threaten Intel
by Koshkin on Tuesday December 11, 2018 @12:50PM
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Indeed. (Except that "WSL" should be read as "Windows Substitute for Linux.")
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I don't remember FreeBSD or illumos calling their syscall compatibility layer for Linux Substitute.
Nor were they called “services for Linux.”
Nor are they called now, rather Subsystem.
I don't care what names marketing departments come up with.
Actually "for Linux" came from the legal department as Linux is a trademark and it's a common practice to indicate relationship with "for X" where X is a trademark (e.g. "Y for Twitter" instead for "Twitter Y" that would suggest close relationship, from the same company).
Thanks for the clarification.
Re:Amazon’s Chips Threaten Intel
by rhinoceraptor on Wednesday December 12, 2018 @08:26AM
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It's more like a "Windows Subsystem for Linux Applications"