Microsoft Open-Sources Windows Subsystem for Linux

Well here’s a turn up: Microsoft just released the source code for Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), making its nifty fully open source after almost a decade of development. The tech giant announced the news at its BUILD 2025 event, where it made some other open-source related announcements, including its own CLI text editor called Edit, and the code for WSL is already up on GitHub for interested devs to grapple with. For those not familiar with it, WSL is a specialised virtualisation setup that lets Windows users run Linux distributions (like Ubuntu) inside of Windows, with tight system, software
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