The sub -system of Microsoft Windows for Linux has become an important tool for developers and power users because it was presented in the Windows 10 Anniversary update again in 2016, allowing them to access the Linux command line and Linux applications from within Windows.
The company has improved WSL steadily since then, which improves performance, facilitating fixation and use, adding features like GPU and supporting sound. But today as part of its Build’s developer conference, Microsoft has announced that it will be Making almost all open source WSLClosing The first number The new WSL project that was attracted to GitHub in 2016.
“WSL could have been what it is today without its community,” wrote the software engineer at Microsoft Pierre Boulay in the company’s blog publication. “We have seen the extent of society in WSL without reaching the source code, and we cannot wait to find out how WSL will develop now after the community can make direct contributions to the software instructions in the project.”
Only two elements of WSL are still closed source: Kerneel Lxcore driver. 2019 wsl 2); P9RDR.Sys and P9NP.Dll files that deal with the Windows file regimen to Linux (in other words, which makes them Windows can easily access the Linux file system). Microsoft did not close the door to open these ingredients but also did not say whether they plan to make them open source.
