Microsoft’s Windows Sub System for Linux developers and Power users have become an important tool because it was introduced in 2016 in Windows 10 anniversary updates, which they access from the Bullet in Linux Command Line and Linux applications from inside Windows.
The company has Since then the WSL has improvedImprove performance, make it easier to install and use, and add features such as GPU and audio support. But as part of its Blood Developer Conference today, Microsoft announced that it would be Almost all of the WSL to make all open sourceClosed, closed Very first problem That the then new WSL project was attracted to the Gut Hub in 2016.
“The WSL could never happen today without its own community today,” said Perry Bowe, senior Microsoft software engineer Perry Bowe. “We have seen how much the community has cooperated in the WSL without access to the Source Code, and we cannot wait to see how the WSL will now be ready when the community can contribute directly to the project.”
The only two elements of the WSL are closed sources for now: a lxcore.sys used for Colonel Driver WSL 1 (the initial version of WSL which is still supported, while installing the new 2019 WSL 2);; And P9RDR.SYS and P9NP.Dll files that handle the file system from Windows to Linux (in other words, make it so that Windows can easily access the Linux file system). Microsoft did not close the door for open source of these ingredients, but did not say whether he intended to make them open source.