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Can you clarify the GNU/Linux distinction with regard to the WSL? I mean... isn't the main WSL layer a flavor of Ubuntu?
by monkmartinez 9y ago
Can you clarify the GNU/Linux distinction with regard to the WSL? I mean... isn't the main WSL layer a flavor of Ubuntu?
- cwyers 9y agoLinux is the name of the kernel. It is also used as the name of the kernel plus the userland, which has a lot of GNU code in it (although give Poettering some time and we'll see). WSL is the userland without the kernel.
- Spivak 9y agoWSL is running Ubuntu software with the GNU userspace on top of the Windows kernel using a Linux translation layer.