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The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source. (blogs.windows.com)
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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

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[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

ReactOS has SUCH potential. I really wanna see it thrive.

[–] mvirts@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Unfortunately building it was a disaster a few years ago, I should give it another go.

[–] Matriks404@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Why were you trying to build it? You can find both ""stable"" release and nightly builds on ReactOS website.

ReactOS 0.4.16 was just released, but I do recommend just getting a nightly build, unless it doesn't work and you have enough patience to try out the regular version as well.

[–] mvirts@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

To try and contribute! :P gotta start somewhere