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[Discuss] WSL 2

On Mon, May 6, 2019 at 9:43 PM Bill Bogstad <bogstad at pobox.com> wrote:
>
> 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/

I just found a Microsoft  dev blog which has more info about this:

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/announcing-wsl-2/

It looks like both the current emulated environment as well as full
Linux kernel will be usable on the same system.

Bill Bogstad