#Windows 10 linux kernel for free#

The source code of Windows Terminal is already available on GitHub. WSL 2 will be rolling out to Windows 10 Insider builds by the end of June 2019.īesides the Linux kernel, Microsoft also announced the company's plan to launch a new Windows Terminal app that will make WSL 2 work even better. Microsoft today unveils 'Windows Terminal' - a new, powerful, and productive terminal application for command-line lovers. The company will also provide build instructions so that developers can create their own customized kernels. Moreover, Microsoft will host its custom WSL2 kernel on Github and will be making it fully open source, so that developers and researchers can contribute to the WSL2 kernel. While the source code for the Linux kernel will come from, Microsoft says the company will include its custom kernel in Windows Update to deliver security updates and improvements to Windows 10. Some things only work in certain versions of WSL though, and you’re not sure which one you have. It’s much easier than using a dual boot to have both operating systems. You can see a preview of Windows Subsystem for Linux version 2.0 in the given video. You’ve got the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) running on your Windows 11 or Windows 10 for trying some bash commands, and maybe running some of the best Linux apps. 'Initial tests that we've run have WSL 2 running up to 20x faster compared to WSL 1 when unpacking a zipped tarball, and around 2-5x faster when using git clone, npm install and cmake on various projects,' Microsoft writes in the announcement blog.

#Windows 10 linux kernel for free#

Unlike Windows Subsystem for Linux version 1.0 (WSL 1) which used a Linux-compatible kernel, the first WSL 2 release will be based on the latest long-term stable Linux release, i.e., version 4.19 of Linux at .īy making the switch to using the Linux kernel itself, Microsoft is getting all of Linux's features like Docker containers for free and promising 'noticeably faster' performance, with faster boot up and lesser use of memory.