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The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source

by Windows Developer Blog blogs.windows.com published 2025-05-19

Today we’re very excited to announce the open-source release of the Windows Subsystem for Linux. This is the result of a multiyear effort to prepare for this, and a great closure to the first ever issue raised on the Microsoft/WSL repo:

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