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It would be fun to call it Windows Subsystem for Linux!
by advisedwang 5mo ago
It would be fun to call it Windows Subsystem for Linux!
- sedatk 5mo agowhich would be the right use of the term. WSL was originally called LXSS = linux subsystem. As I understand, lawyers stepped in soon after.
- sunaookami 5mo agoThey already did the same thing 25 years ago with "Windows Services for UNIX": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Services_for_UNIX https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Services_for_UNIX
- wmf 5mo agoWhich is also backwards.
- throwaway27448 5mo agoThe two terms seem semantically identical (i.e., ambiguous and therefore meaningless) to me.
- sedatk 5mo agoYou wouldn't call a Nintendo emulator "Windows emulator for Nintendo" would you.
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