Re:The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source
by anon291 on Monday May 19, 2025 @06:21PM
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I mean... WINE does the same on windows, but microsoft refuses to release their API docs for all internal APIs. They release WSL by relying on Linux's open-ness, while refusing the same for themselves.
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Re:The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source
by notpushkin on Monday May 19, 2025 @08:43PM
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Then they discontinue WSL1 and just do a VM instead because... reasons. I really don’t understand how MSFT works on the inside.
Re:The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source
by duskwuff on Monday May 19, 2025 @10:27PM
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A big one of those reasons was Docker. Docker was still fairly niche when WSL was released in 2016, but demand for it grew rapidly, and I don't think there was any realistic way they could have made it work on the NT kernel.