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Re:Microsoft is going to ship a full Linux kernel in Windows 10 by TazeTSchnitzel on Tuesday May 07, 2019 @12:04AM (#19846450)
WSL came originally from their plan to make Android apps trivially portable to Windows Phone.
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Re:Microsoft is going to ship a full Linux kernel in Windows 10 by toflon on Tuesday May 07, 2019 @04:47AM (#19847598)
Worth noting that Project Astoria was shelved before release, and WSL came out after Windows Phones final release.

So technically WSL was not intended to be used for porting android apps.

But they did use Project Astoria as at starting ground to create WSL.

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