Windows 10 is getting a Built-in Linux Kernel

[Joe Caverly]

The initial release of WSL 2 will arrive by the end of June 2019 in Insider builds of Windows 10.

Windows 10 Is Getting a Built-in Linux Kernel

Microsoft today announced Windows Subsystem for Linux version 2—that’s WSL 2. It will feature “dramatic file system performance increases” and support for Docker. To make all this possible, Windows 10 will have a Linux kernel.

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[samintz]

It looks like this is a related article:

Windows 10 Is Finally Getting a Real Command Line

Forget the Command Prompt. Microsoft is launching a new command line application named “Windows Terminal.” It features tabs and themes, with centralized access to PowerShell, the classic Cmd environment, and Bash via Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL.)

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Looks like they took a page from Rex's playbook.

 

[Joe Caverly]

It looks more like the GNOME terminal that I use in Lubuntu.

Joe