Ubuntu will be running in the next major Windows 10 update. Ubuntu parent company Canonical
and Microsoft will be running it not on Linux in a container or virtual
machine (VM), but on Windows native libraries and programs: Windows
Subsystem for Linux (WSL).
WSL was quietly placed in the Windows 10 (build 14251) code in late January. A few days later, a developer worked out that two new subsystems lxcore.sys and lxss.sys, could be bridges for Windows programmers to develop Linux applications. WSL
can be used for that, but its first job is to support an Ubuntu
user-mode image. A Microsoft spokesperson explained, "We built new
infrastructure within Windows, WSL, upon which we run a genuine Ubuntu
user-mode image provided by our great partners over at Canonical,
creators of Ubuntu Linux. The result is that you can now run native Bash
on Ubuntu on Windows."
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