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Your points are fair, but color with the fact that the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) is build to be distro-agnostic. We picked Ubuntu in this first version
by bitcrazed 11y ago
Your points are fair, but color with the fact that the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) is build to be distro-agnostic. We picked Ubuntu in this first version due to its popularity with developers, but there are few technical reasons (other than us fully and accurately implementing the necessary syscalls) why it shouldn't support other distro's userland environments in the future.
Knowing this, what should we call it?
Windows Subsystem for Running POSIX + Linux Syscall API Compatible Userland Tools? WSRPLSACUMT? :)
I'm genuinely interested on what you all feel would be a good way to think about naming moving forward.
- bitwize 11y agoThere's nothing wrong with "Windows Subsystem for Linux". But there's a difference between "This is Ubuntu running on WSL" or "This is Ubuntu running on our Linux compatibility layer", and "This is Linux".
- JdeBP 11y ago> I'm genuinely interested on what you all feel would be a good way to think about naming moving forward. I did actually give this some thought, for what it's worth. There are problems with "GNU" in the name and problems with "Ubuntu" in the name. But it seems to me that Microsoft has a naming scheme that it is perhaps unaware of. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11417059 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11417059 . (-: