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By microsoft's naming scheme this should be Linux Subsystem for Windows
by ChrisRR 6mo ago
By microsoft's naming scheme this should be Linux Subsystem for Windows
- nonethewiser 6mo agoYeah this has never made sense...
- wongarsu 6mo agoEspecially since the other subsystems were referred to as the OS/2 subsystem, Posix subsystem, Win32 subsystem, Security subsystem, etc
- voidfunc 6mo agoIt makes tons of sense if you understand marketing and that the brand "Windows" must always come first.
- chungy 6mo agoDoes that explain Word for Windows?
- andai 6mo agoWindows Subsystem for Word
- wongarsu 6mo agoWindows Program for Word
- flexagoon 6mo agoDon't you mean Copilot 365 .NET SharePoint Document Platform for Windows?
- avadodin 6mo agoNo it's the Word app which is included in your organization's Copilot 365 .NET SharePoint license assuming you know how to trigger the download. The chatbot the license is named after doesn't have a clue either so good luck.
- jerf 6mo agoIt runs Linux with Windows underneath it, hence Windows is the subsystem being subordinate (in the most literal sense where it simply means "order" with no further implications) to Linux. Per wongarsu's post, something like the OS/2 Subsystem is an OS/2 system with Windows beneath it, but the OS/2 Subsystem is much smaller and less consequential, thus subsidiary (in the auxiliary sense) to Windows as a whole. Isn't marketing fun? This is how we end up with hundreds of products that provide "solutions" to your business problems and "retain customers" and upwards of a dozen other similar phrases they all slather on their frontpages, even though one is a distributed database, one is a metrics analysis system, one handles usage-based billing, one is a consulting service, one is a hosted provider for authentication... so frustrating trying to figure out just what a product is sometimes with naming conventions that make "Windows Subsystem for Linux" look like a paragon of clarity. At least "Linux" was directly referenced and it wasn't Windows Subsystem for Alternate Binary Formats or something.
- GranPC 6mo agoNo? WSL is Linux on Windows — so W9xSL is Linux on Windows 9x. I think… :)
- mrweasel 6mo agoWSL is "Windows Subsystem for Linux", so this should be "Linux Subsystem for Windows 9x"
- GranPC 6mo agoBy Microsoft’s convention, that would be a way to run Windows 9x on Linux. It’s a bit confusing. Another example is “Windows Subsystem for Android”, which is what they use for running Android apps on Windows. I think the idea is that it’s not a “Windows Subsystem” for X, but rather a Windows “Subsystem for X”. (Edited: mixed it up on the last sentence.)
- zingmars 6mo agoYeah it makes more sense if you consider the word Windows' to be in possessive form.
- mrweasel 6mo ago> that would be a way to run Windows 9x on Linux Which is exactly what the post says this is. It's running Windows 9x on Linux kernel. It's strangely worded, but from the follow up comment, and the readme in the repo it seems clear that it's running on the Linux kernel.
- andai 6mo ago> WSL9x runs a modern Linux kernel (6.19 at time of writing) cooperatively inside the Windows 9x kernel Pretty sure it's the other way around. But I haven't had my coffee yet ;) Microsoft's naming scheme confuses me every single time though: "Windows Subsystem for Linux" actually runs Linux on Windows...
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- AgentMatt 6mo agoI agree. Don't have a citation now, but I remember reading that this was a copyright problem. They wanted to name it "Linux Subsystem for Windows", but apparently the Linux foundation does not allow unaffiliated projects to have a name beginning with "Linux", or something like that.
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