Microsoft recently open sourced Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) under the MIT license, allowing anyone to freely inspect, modify, build, or distribute its source code. This article guides you through building WSL 2.6 from source, using CMake, a popular build system generator, on Windows.

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The first open-source WSL release, Windows Subsystem for Linux, is available for preview. WSL is a platform that enables you to run Linux distributions within Windows. This article looks at the new release, 2.6, the open-source shift, and highlights updates to the stable branch, 2.5.

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Ubuntu now offers two types of snapshot services: one that lets you look back into history, and another that looks forward into development. The recently introduced monthly snapshot releases serve as curated previews of the upcoming Ubuntu version, offering a glimpse into the future and enabling early testing. In contrast, archive snapshots, provided by the Ubuntu snapshot service, freeze Ubuntu package archives at specific moments in the past, ensuring reproducible environments and preserving historical states of your software.

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