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Today we’re very excited to announce the open-source release of the Windows Subsystem for Linux. This is the result of a multiyear effort to prepare for this, and a great closure to the first ever issue raised on the Microsoft/WSL repo:

https://github.com/microsoft/WSL

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 day ago (10 children)

So besides the brownie points, im curious what having it open sourced will benefit. Not like you can fork it to run on a different OS. You can make some extensions but to do what? You can’t really tie it further in to the host OS unless you know of some undocumented Win32 APIs.

Maybe im just not thinking creatively enough.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Watch someone reverse the thing into turbocharged WINE

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The entire thing is for running Linux software on Windows, it's the complete opposite of Wine.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The infrastructure can be duplicated and studied tho. Would be cool if a little dreamy

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Sure, but not useful for wine or Linux

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