US EditionMicrosoft Open-Sources Windows Subsystem for Linux at Build 2025
- At the Build 2025 conference, Microsoft made most of the source code for the Windows Subsystem for Linux available to the public by releasing it on GitHub.
- WSL started as an experimental feature in 2016 and evolved to let users run Linux environments seamlessly on Windows without full virtual machines.
- The open-sourced components include command-line tools, background services, and Linux-side daemons, while key Windows kernel drivers like lxcore.sys remain proprietary.
- Microsoft’s Pierre Boulay expressed enthusiasm about open-sourcing WSL, emphasizing the significant impact of community contributions so far and the potential for even greater improvements now that the code is publicly accessible.
- This release allows developers to inspect, build, and enhance WSL code, potentially accelerating its development and increasing community involvement.
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The Windows Subsystem for Linux Is Now Open Source
At its annual Build developer conference, Microsoft today announced that it is open sourcing the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), which allows developers to easily run Linux distributions inside of Windows. “We want Windows to be a great dev box,” Pavan Davuluri, the corporate VP at Microsoft in charge of Windows and devices, told me. “At the end of the day, a good dev box means a variety of different things. One of them has been just having g…
Microsoft releases WSL as open source, announces CLI text editor to replace the MS-DOS Editor – OSnews
Today we’re very excited to announce the open-source release of the Windows Subsystem for Linux. This is the result of a multiyear effort to prepare for this, and a great closure to the first ever issue raised on the Microsoft/WSL repo: Will this be Open Source? · Issue #1 · microsoft/WSL. That means that the code that powers WSL is now available on GitHub at Microsoft/WSL and open sourced to the community! You can download WSL and build it from…
InstallAware releases flexible installer source code under BSL
Following in the steps of other software providers looking to protect their intellectual property, flexible installer company InstallAware today announced it has published the source code for InstallAware 2025 under a Business Source License. In recent months, there has been a lot of discussion within the industry as to what constitutes open source, and if companies that use licenses outside of what has been certified by the Open Source Initiati…
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