Thread: Last straw with me and continuing with Windows
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juiceme is offline juiceme
2018-08-07 , 07:54
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Originally Posted by HtheB View Post
Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) and a lot of other Linux features:

It has a full blown Linux 3.4 kernel in the core of the Windows operating system, including full support for VFS, BSD Sockets, ptrace, Bash shell, and a bonafide ELF loader.
A nitpick; WSL does not have a linux kernel, it's an API translation layer very much like WINE but the other way around; the linux library calls are translated to equivalent windoze library calls.

It is a neat thing however, and might be of use to people who for some reason are locked to windows environment and can't or dont want to use a VM.
 

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