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		CoolCold 4 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source I've stopped seeing joys of recompiling kernel [and consequence reboots of servers which easily could take 10 minutes and that's without IPMI /KVM] since 2009-2010

palata 4 months ago [–]

Fortunately, Desktop users never need to recompile their kernel, it's really just a choice.

And I hope that you don't use WSL for servers :).

CoolCold 4 months ago | [–]

Nope, WSL is for operator machines desktops/laptops, pure Linux for servers.

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