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What is WSL2?

• thesuperbigfrog 5y ago
  The second iteration of "Windows Subsystem for Linux". Basically it lets you run Linux within Windows and it is implemented by Microsoft: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/about https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/about WSL1 was a Linux syscall translation layer that tried to emulate Linux. WSL2 is actually a Linux kernel running as a Windows subsystem via containerization magic.
  • PaulHoule 5y ago
    Not really containerization, but virtualization.
  • pjmlp 5y ago
    Additionally, WSL was born from the ashes of Project Astoria, which goal was to bring Android into Windows Store. Now with Windows 11 they seem to be having another go at it.