Windows Subsystem for Linux Exits Beta

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The Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), a new Windows 10 feature that enables you to run native Linux command-line tools directly on Windows, alongside your traditional Windows desktop and modern store apps, is no longer in beta and will be fully supported in the Fall Creators Update later this year. Users will be able to share and access files on the Windows filesystem from within Linux, and call Linux executables from Windows and vice versa.

We're excited to announce that in Windows 10 Fall Creators Update (FCU) due to ship in fall 2017, Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) will no longer be a beta feature and will become a fully supported Windows feature. Early adopters on the Windows Insider program will notice that WSL is no longer marked as a beta feature as of Insider build 16251. This will be great news for those who've held-back from employing WSL as a mainline toolset: You'll now be able to leverage WSL as a day-to-day developer toolset, and become ever more productive when building, testing, deploying, and managing your apps and systems on Windows 10.
 
I will believe that they really love Linux when they release Office for it.

And the only reason I want to see this is because it will hopefully encourage others to do the same.
 
Tweak42 said:
Command line only. WSL has been available in beta for over a year and there hasn't been any indication they are working on xwindows support. That doesn't mean MS couldn't add it in the future.
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Thanks, a step in the right direction still.
 
Sonicks said:
Maybe I'm a bit of a dunce but isn't it more accurate to call this feature "Linux subsystem for Windows"?

For a second I thought this was a Linux feature that enabled you to run native Windows apps but it's the other way around.
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yeah same here. at first i thought it was like wine or something.
 
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