MicrosoftDocs/WSL
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Source code behind the Windows Subsystem for Linux documentation.
9 mentions on Hacker News by 9 people: 2 stories, 7 comments · first 2019-06-12 · latest 2024-12-20
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…turned down a documentation PR because the formatting was better for humans but worse for LLMs: https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/WSL/pull/2021#issuecomment-... They changed their mind after a public outcry including here on HN.
comment by ForHackernews · 2024-12-20 · in OpenAI O3 breakthrough high score on ARC-AGI-PUB -
…using virtualization, but the WSL instances are actually using a shared kernel packaged with WSL ( https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/WSL/blob/mattw-wsl2-explain... ). So it’s a bit more optimized than standard MacOS Virtualization due to…
comment by kuhsaft · 2023-04-19 · in Apple Plans to Launch More Than Just Its New Headset at WWDC -
…wsl distros they are all in one VM, though that may be wrong Yes, they run as containers. From https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/WSL/issues/1573#issuecommen... : WSL distributions (instances) are not VMs. They are best described as…
comment by NGRhodes · 2022-11-04 · in Is CBL-Mariner going to become Microsoft Linux? -
Huh. Seems like it's more interesting than that: https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/WSL/issues/899 > ...for WSL2 you only need "Virtual Machine Platform" (a subset of Hyper-V) and "Windows Subsystem for Linux" features, both available in…
comment by KronisLV · 2022-02-01 · in Did you know Docker Desktop runs a virtual machine on your computer? -
…I had that problem during 2020 and gave up, but it appears that others are having success in 2021: https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/WSL/issues/798
comment by 1MachineElf · 2021-04-21 · in Initial preview of GUI app support for the Windows Subsystem for Linux -
for reference: https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/wsl/blob/master/WSL/install...
comment by judge2020 · 2021-02-28 · in WebAssembly -
Some more information: https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/WSL/blob/live/WSL/wsl2-inde... https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/announcing-wsl-2/ https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/shipping-a-linux-...…
comment by molticrystal · 2019-06-12 · in [zipfile] WSLv2 Linux Kernel May 2019