“This is the culmination of years of effort from the Linux Systems Group as well as multiple other teams across Microsoft,” Hammons notes. Microsoft says it is a “drop-in replacement” for the current emulator. It will initially be based on version Linux 4.19, the latest long-term stable release of the platform, and it will be updated to each new long-term stable release to ensure that it’s always up-to-date. Hammons’ post goes into greater detail about the kernel. “Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL 2) is the next version of WSL and is based on a Linux 4.19 kernel shipping in Windows … WSL 2 also improves filesystem I/O performance Linux compatibility,” the post notes.
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And based on that documentation, I wrote what I wrote earlier about this and other changes that will impact Windows 10 this year.īut a Microsoft blog post that includes a reference to this new feature explicitly mentions the new kernel, and the press didn’t see it until this morning, like everyone else. That doesn’t say anything about a Linux kernel, and current versions of WSL utilize an emulator, not a real Linux kernel. “The next generation of the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) will offer technology built for Microsoft Azure to the Windows Desktop to address the top customer requests for improved performance and compatibility … developers will experience up to twice as much speed for file-system heavy operations, such as Node Package Manager install.”
Consider the following description of WSL 2, which Microsoft provided to the press ahead of the show: The inclusion of a Linux kernel in Windows 10 came as a bit of a surprise, even for those of us, like me, who had been pre-briefed by Microsoft about what to expect at Build this year.
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