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by dbgllm 3628 days ago
You mention a target as compliance or certification, but I don't think this is a direct concern for the WSL. They want to support specific use-cases, at least at first.

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"Moving forward we will be investigating new areas of interest while continuing to support the following scenarios:

+ GNU command line tools such as grep, sed, and awk

+ File system and symlink support within the WSL environment

+ Ability to run apt / apt-get for installs, updates, and package testing

+ Basic functionality for languages such as NodeJS/npm, Python, Perl

+ Command line tools such as Vim, Emacs, Git, and SSH"

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/wsl/2016/07/08/bash-on-ubun...

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I don't think it's a direct concern either. Though if I had to guess they'd target LSB over any of the others.

I think it's telling that they called it the "Windows Subsystem for Linux" where are their prior Subsystems (SUA/SFU) were for "Unix".