


You get the exact same Linux utilities and they’ll run on your Windows system directly. Microsoft’s solution is surprisingly capable.

It’s a developer toolset, not a complete Linux system Linux geeks can think of it as sort of the inverse of ‘wine’-Ubuntu binaries running natively in Windows.” Dustin KirklandĪpt-get works just like it does on Ubuntu, with access to the same software packages. The lxcore.sys and lxss.sys files form the new “Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL).”Ĭanonical’s Dustin Kirkland is thrilled about the technology, and explains it this way: “A team of sharp developers at Microsoft has been hard at work adapting some Microsoft research technology to basically perform real time translation of Linux syscalls into Windows OS syscalls. This is all thanks to a new subsystem quietly placed into Windows 10 build 14251 back in January.
