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Just like it doesn't have a native Win32 environment, rather different personalities built on top of a common layer.

UNIX environment on Windows is just like how IBM and Unisys mainframes deal with it.



Indeed. (Except that "WSL" should be read as "Windows Substitute for Linux.")


I don't remember FreeBSD or illumos calling their syscall compatibility layer for Linux Substitute.


Nor were they called “services for Linux.”


Nor are they called now, rather Subsystem.

I don't care what names marketing departments come up with.


Actually "for Linux" came from the legal department as Linux is a trademark and it's a common practice to indicate relationship with "for X" where X is a trademark (e.g. "Y for Twitter" instead for "Twitter Y" that would suggest close relationship, from the same company).


Thanks for the clarification.


It's more like a "Windows Subsystem for Linux Applications"




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