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Re:Initial Impressions of WSL 2 by ken on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @09:10AM (#23090480)
How many developers care about "certified Unix", or can even say exactly what that means? Is anyone buying Macintosh computers in order to run their certified Unix software?

Linux isn't certified, and none of developers using that seem to mind. If Microsoft got WSL "certified", would any Linux user consider it a better Linux than Linux?

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Re:Initial Impressions of WSL 2 by pjmlp on Thursday May 07, 2020 @05:55AM (#23101316)
Actually there are Linux distributions that are UNIX certified, namely Inspur K-UX and EulerOS 2.0.

https://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/brand3617.htm

https://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/brand3622.htm

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Re:Initial Impressions of WSL 2 by scarface74 on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @12:40PM (#23093136)
None.

The point is how many people care about running Linux in a VM (which is all WSL2 is) on Windows instead of running a native Unix operating system? Out of those that do care about running Linux, what is the practical difference between running Linux in a VM on Windows and Linux on a VM on Macs?

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Re:Initial Impressions of WSL 2 by saagarjha on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @01:07PM (#23093521)
Apple doesn’t put time and effort into making Linux on a VM feel at home on macOS.
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Re:Initial Impressions of WSL 2 by scarface74 on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @01:13PM (#23093609)
It doesn’t have to. How does WSL feel “more at home” than the third party VM solutions available for Macs?
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