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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,alt.comp.os.windows-11
Subject: Microsoft Open-Sources WSL2
Date: Tue, 20 May 2025 00:17:51 -0000 (UTC)
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Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL2) is the hacked-up pile of glue code
that lets a Linux kernel run on a Windows installation. Now Microsoft
is open-sourcing (nearly) all of that.

<https://www.theverge.com/news/669286/microsoft-windows-subsystem-for-linux-open-source>

So, do you think this is a good sign or a bad one, in terms of the
future of WSL2 and Windows itself? I see that the GitHub repo already
has about 1000 open issues ...