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Re:Initial preview of GUI app support for the Windows Subsys... by devmor on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @02:24PM (#26893526)
Microsoft actually already has a linux distro of their own for internal use. So they're partway there.
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Re:Initial preview of GUI app support for the Windows Subsys... by jonpalmisc on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @02:38PM (#26893723)
Any more info on this available? I'd be curious to read about it.
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Re:Initial preview of GUI app support for the Windows Subsys... by favorited on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @02:49PM (#26893877)
It's called CBL-Mariner: https://github.com/microsoft/CBL-Mariner
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Re:Initial preview of GUI app support for the Windows Subsys... by disk0 on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @03:58PM (#26894651)
Coincedentally,

  The system distro is where all of the magic happens. The sytem distro is a containerized Linux environment where the WSLg XServer, Wayland server and Pulse Audio server are running.
  ...
  The system distro is based on the Microsoft CBL-Mariner Linux. This is a minimal Linux environment, just enough to run the various pieces of WSLg. For details on how to build and deploy a private system distro please see our build instructions. [0]
[0]: https://github.com/microsoft/wslg#wslg-system-distro
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Re:Initial preview of GUI app support for the Windows Subsys... by neilsimp1 on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @02:45PM (#26893809)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azure_Sphere

As far as I know, it's the only Linux distro that requires Windows and VS in order to build it.

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