[Discuss] WSL 2

[bogstad at pobox.com (Bill Bogstad)]

On Mon, May 6, 2019 at 5:40 PM Rich Pieri <richard.pieri at gmail.com> wrote:
>...
> WSL 2 will ship with a fully GPL compliant (including patches),
> reasonably current Linux kernel running in a lightweight virtual
> machine. Reasons cited are better performance, particularly filesystem
> performance, and native Docker capability.
>
> https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/05/windows-10-will-soon-ship-with-a-full-open-source-gpled-linux-kernel/

Kind of short on details...  Is this going to be some kind of highly
optimized Hyper-V type environment with a customized
Linux kernel?   Is it going to still have full filesystem visibility
from both operating systems?  How?  Will I still be able to run
Window's binaries from a Linux command line?   Will I be able to run
all standard system daemons without hacks?  (i.e.
will init actually be systemd (or at least be replaceable with systemd
or at least some Linux native init)).

[I know you don't know the answers, but that article is pretty vague...]

Bill Bogstad