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posted by martyb on Wednesday May 20 2020, @01:36AM   Printer-friendly
from the year-of-linux-on-the-desktop dept.

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?


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  • (Score: 2) by istartedi on Wednesday May 20 2020, @12:45PM

    by istartedi (123) on Wednesday May 20 2020, @12:45PM (#996852) Journal

    What does it even mean to transfer copyright under GPL? You just get the license right back from the entity to which you transfer. I guess the FSF could make it proprietary for subsequent versions. You retain all the GPL rights, right up to the moment they do that. If that ever happened, any of the copies out there could be used for a fork, and that would be perfectly legal AFAIK. Maybe they would have to change the name of the project, but that's about it I think. LOL, we'd have "Free GNU" like "Free DOS".

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