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: Will this be Open Source? · Issue #1 · microsoft/WSL. That means that the code that powers WSL is now available on GitHub at Microsoft/WSL and open sourced to the community! You can download WSL and build it from source, add new fixes and features and participate in WSL’s active development. WSL component overview WSL is made of a set of distribution components. Some run in Windows, and some run inside the WSL 2 virtual machine. Here’s an overview of WSL’s architecture: Windows Subsystem for Linux architecture. WSL’s code can be broken up into these main areas: Command line executables that are the entry points to interact with WSL wsl.exe, wslconfig.exe and wslg.exe The WSL service that starts the WSL VM, starts distros, mounts file access shares a

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