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:

https://github.com/microsoft/WSL

  • @toastmeister@lemmy.ca
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    1 day ago

    Docker doesn’t exist in a usable state on Windows, so its an attempt to allow management of servers using Windows, as Windows Server fades away from usage entirely.

    • @anachrohack@lemmy.world
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      Docker works with windows containers, plus wsl can be used as the backend for docker. I use it all the time