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

  • Buckshot@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    This is my thought, they’ve all but lost the battle for cloud servers and they’d rather the developers computers were Windows. WSL allows that.

      • ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝@sopuli.xyz
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        1 year ago

        Yeah but imagine if they could collect licence fees after every AWS server as well.

        The world is not enough for these companies.

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        1 year ago

        I meant running windows on them, its enormous and its all linux servers. I know you can run windows but it’ll be a tiny fraction.

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          1 year ago

          Microsoft don’t care what you run on azure, just that you’re using azure. In fact running Linux on azure instead of Windows benefits them because it’s more lightweight so their hardware stretches further.