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by pulse7 527 days ago
WSL1 was "Linux API on top of Windows", WSL2 is "Linux VM on top of Windows"
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pjmlp 527 days ago
More like,

WSL1 was "Linux API on top of NT kernel picoprocesses", WSL2 is "Linux VM on top of Hyper-V"

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mycall 526 days ago
I wish WSL1 was open sourced
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pjmlp 526 days ago
Picoprocesses are based on Drawbridge research, so at least there is some reading about how it all works,

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/drawbridge/

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/blogs/wsl/windows-...

https://www.zdnet.com/article/under-the-hood-of-microsofts-w...

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