Microsoft has announced that it has opened the Windows Subcistum for Linux. WSL, as it is commonly called, allows users to run the Linux app directly on Windows.
You just need to run WSL to run the following command in a terminal: WSL -install
Refer to this article for additional details about how to set Wsl.
WSL was first declared at the Build 2016 Developer Conference, and the Windows 10 was sent with an update update. While the original release was based on lxcore.sys, a pico process provider which Windows was used to run ELF executable. Microsoft released WSL 2 in 2019, with native support for Linux kernel, to improve the compatibility of the apps. It also introduced new capabilities such as GPU support, GUI, mirrors networking, DNS tunling, session 0 support, proxy support, proxy support, firewall support, etc. with new capabilities like options to run Linux App.
Since the initial release of WSL, users and developers were requesting Microsoft to open the source to the virtual machine code. This is what happened at the build 2025 Dev Sammelan. Microsoft states that it was to work on declining WSL from Windows CODEBASE to release the source code as a standalone app.
Developers can now analyze the code, and contribute to it, propose a promotion, thus helping WSL develop in a more powerful app. The Windows Subcistum MIT license for the Linux source code has been issued. It is available Girb,
It is worth noting that the following components are still part of the Windows image and are not open at the moment: LXCore.Sys, the kernel side driver who powers Wsl 1.
Microsoft has also released an open source, command-line text editor for Windows, called Edit.
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