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Look at that fragmentation! (lemm.ee)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Fragmentation is good! Old meme I posted on that site.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 24 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

The naming of WSL sort of makes sense because it's actually build upon a kernel feature, which hass been mostly unused for more than a decade, called subsystems. There's the 'subsystem for Win32', which is the primary one that all Windows applications use, and then there were also the 'subsystem for POSIX' as well as the 'subsystem for 'OS/X'. WSL was simply a reboot of that technology.

The funny part is that this turned out to be too complex so WSL 2 ditched all that and simply uses a VM running the actual kernel in the background, so the name isn't even accurate anymore.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

"subsystem for posix" etc. might be accurate but they put a WORD before it that messes it up. Now it reads like Windows subsystem, For linux. Yeah there is a software which is windows subsystem for linux. Its called wine. (Maybe W in wine stands for windows subsystem for linux lol)