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Has no one seen this yet? Don't cross the streams!
Earlier today, we wrote that Microsoft was going to add some big new features to the Windows Subsystem for Linux, including native support for Docker containers. It turns out that that ain't the half of it.
Not even half.
All is changing with Windows Subsystem for Linux 2. Instead of emulating the Linux kernel APIs on the NT kernel, WSL 2 is going to run a full Linux kernel in a lightweight virtual machine. This kernel will be trimmed down and tailored to this particular use case, with stripped-down hardware support (since it will defer to the host Windows OS for that) and faster booting.
The Linux kernel is GPLed open source; the GPL license requires that any modifications made to the code must be published and made available under the GPL license. Microsoft will duly comply with this, publishing the patches and modifications it makes to the kernel. WSL 2 will also use a similar split as the current WSL does: the kernel component will be shipped with Windows while "personalities" as provided by the various Linux distributions can be installed from the Microsoft Store.
To quote Han Solo, "I've got a bad feeling about this."
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Tuesday May 07 2019, @07:33PM (3 children)
Is Microsoft still around? Hearing about them now feels like what it was like to hear people mention LotusNotes in the 90's.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 07 2019, @10:00PM (2 children)
You scoff, but after the next election Satya Nadella is going to be President of the USA.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 07 2019, @10:14PM (1 child)
Wrong. That position is already reserved for Mark Zuckerberg.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 08 2019, @04:49AM
It's Hillary's turn first.