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by pjmlp 4 days ago
WSL 1 is long gone for all practical purposes, yet it still dominates conversations.

Also everyone on FOSS gets it wrong, WSL wasn't a subsystem like classical Windows NT ones.

It was based on Drawbridge research using picoprocesses, a new approach for library OSes.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/blogs/wsl/pico-pro...
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embedding-shape 3 days ago
> Also everyone on FOSS gets it wrong, WSL wasn't a subsystem like classical Windows NT ones.

Everyone in FOSS? How about Microsoft got it wrong, since they actually named it The Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)? It wasn't the FOSS community who chose the name for them.

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pjmlp 3 days ago
What has that to do with a version number and not keeping up with the times?
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embedding-shape 3 days ago
What version number? WSL1 vs WSL2?

I'm not sure if you see the quoted part. My comment is about the part that starts with "> " that you wrote earlier.

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