US EditionMicrosoft Closes 9-Year-Old Feature Request, Open-Sources Windows Subsystem for Linux
- In May 2025, Microsoft made the source code for the Windows Subsystem for Linux publicly accessible on GitHub, allowing developers and the community to contribute to its ongoing development.
- The move followed a multiyear process that began with WSL's 2016 launch as part of Windows 10 and its separation from Windows codebase in 2021 to accelerate development.
- WSL provides a Linux environment within Windows, with WSL 2 using a Linux kernel and supports features like GPU and graphical applications.
- Microsoft acknowledged that the WSL community has been essential to its development, and now developers have the opportunity to directly contribute to its fixes and new features.
- This open-sourcing allows more community collaboration to improve WSL's performance and integration, while some components like lxcore.sys remain closed.
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WebProNewsMicrosoft Open-Sources Windows Subsystem for Linux
Well here’s a turn up: Microsoft just released the source code for Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), making the nifty tech open-source nearly a decade after development began. The tech giant announced the news at this year’s BUILD event, where it made some other open-source related announcements, including its own CLI text editor called Edit. Source code for WSL was quickly made available on the Microsoft GitHub. For those not familiar with it,…
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