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Does Linux have the same branding guidelines? Because this started before Android.

• ocdtrekkie 4y ago
  That's actually sort of false! WSL was originally designed for Android, to enable Android apps on Windows Mobile phones. (I have a Lumia which has a test build of this from back in the day.) I'm unsure when the branding decision was made, but the possibility of again involving Android support was probably considered.
  • dataflow 4y ago
    Amazing! Thanks.
  • lloeki 4y ago
    I am quite sure this has not much to do with Android, given that this, including the naming scheme, traces back to 1999 with "Windows Services for UNIX". https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Services_for_UNIX https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Services_for_UNIX Funnily enough it lacks "subsystem" but its ancestor was in 1993 "Microsoft POSIX subsystem". https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_POSIX_subsystem https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_POSIX_subsystem