Microsoft is bringing Linux GUI apps to Windows 10:
Linux on Windows 10 gets a big boost and GPU acceleration
Microsoft is promising to dramatically improve its Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) with GUI app support and GPU hardware acceleration. The software giant is adding a full Linux kernel to Windows 10 with WSL version 2 later this month, and it’s now planning to support Linux GUI apps that will run alongside regular Windows apps.
This will be enabled without Windows users having to use X11 forwarding, and it’s mainly designed for developers to run Linux integrated development environments (IDE) alongside regular Windows apps.
While it has been possible to run Linux GUI apps within Windows previously using a third-party X server, poor graphics performance has always been an issue. Microsoft is promising to solve this, too. Windows 10 will soon get added support for GPU hardware acceleration with Linux tools. This is primarily focused on development scenarios involving parallels computation or training machine learning and artificial intelligence models.
So is it the year of Linux on the Desktop?
(Score: 2) by jasassin on Wednesday May 20 2020, @04:16AM (1 child)
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(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday May 20 2020, @05:17AM
They're not actually ripping it off any more than if you forked chrome and called it Sally. I kind of wish they'd forked Firefox instead though, for the rust'y edge jokes.
No idea on VMWare. It's been too long since I've even thought about it. Wouldn't surprise me if they used some LGPL/BSD/MIT stuff but I doubt they're using GPL stuff without distributing the modified source. Too many folks would have thrown a shit fit by now.
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