Posted on Thursday, June 13 2019 @ 21:16 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
Microsoft published Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 18917 to Windows Insiders in the Fast ring, you can find an overview of the new features
over here. One of the interesting new things is Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL 2), this is basically a fully functional Linux kernel inside Windows.
WSL 2 is a new version of the architecture that powers the Windows Subsystem for Linux to run ELF64 Linux binaries on Windows. This new architecture, which uses a real Linux kernel, changes how these Linux binaries interact with Windows and your computer’s hardware, but still provides the same user experience as in WSL 1 (the current widely available version). WSL 2 delivers a much faster file system performance and full system call compatibility, which lets you run more applications like Docker!
