Europe EditionMicrosoft Open-Sources Windows Subsystem for Linux at Build 2025
- During the 2025 Build developer event, the company behind Windows shared the majority of the Windows Subsystem for Linux's source code on GitHub, making it accessible to the public.
- WSL originated in 2016 as an experimental tool to run Linux distributions directly on Windows, evolving through versions with different architectures.
- While Microsoft open-sourced command-line tools, background services, and Linux daemons of WSL, some Windows kernel drivers like lxcore.sys remain proprietary.
- Pierre Boulay emphasized that the development of WSL has been deeply shaped by its community, whose significant contributions occurred even before the project’s source code was made publicly available, underscoring the excitement around open-sourcing WSL today.
- Opening WSL's code allows developers to inspect, build, and submit improvements, signaling increased community involvement in shaping its future development.
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Microsoft finally made a lot of progress expected by the programmers. At the BUILD 2025 conference, it announced a change in the Windows subsystem for Linux (WSL), which is now open-source. This revelation occurs in the event where the...
The Windows Subsystem for Linux Is Now Open Source
At its annual Build developer conference, Microsoft today announced that it is open sourcing the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), which allows developers to easily run Linux distributions inside of Windows. “We want Windows to be a great dev box,” Pavan Davuluri, the corporate VP at Microsoft in charge of Windows and devices, told me. “At the end of the day, a good dev box means a variety of different things. One of them has been just having g…
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