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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Fedora and Arch Linux, two popular Linux distributions, are now officially available for the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). In the past, installing Fedora or Arch on WSL involved extra effort. Users needed to manually download and import tarballs or rely on unofficial Microsoft Store versions, many of which required payment. The introduction of WSL 2.4.4 marked a shift by adding native support for tar-based distributions, which package their OS files in a tar archive. This update allows distro developers like Fedora and Arch to offer official, free WSL versions.

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Microsoft. has recently launched Edit, a lightweight terminal editor for Windows and Linux. It revives the spirit of the MS-DOS Editor, which debuted in 1991 as a full-screen text editor for DOS and early Windows systems. Edit eliminates the need to leave the terminal to edit files. While Edit doesn't feature a traditional GUI, it supports tab management and can be navigated using a mouse. On Linux, the open-source tool can be seen as an alternative to nano.

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