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@benhillis

Manager of the Linux on Windows team @Microsoft, proud father, unrepentant sci-fi / fantasy reader, and @SoundersFC fan. Opinions are my own.

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linkhttps://aka.ms/wsl2 calendar_today06-03-2009 00:02:32

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If youโ€™re looking for an audio book, I canโ€™t recommend the Andy Serkis reading of The Hobbit or Lord of the Rings highly enough. Yes he does the gollum voice and a fantastic Gandalf tooโ€ฆ

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We released our build 1.0 of WSL on the Microsoft Store, taking it out of preview and making it generally available! There's also some other exciting news coming very soon, stay tuned for the official announcement!

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WSL in the Store is now the default for WSL, and is available on both Windows 10 and Windows 11! This also means that Windows 10 can now run Linux GUI apps! Learn more about the details below: devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/thโ€ฆ

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Pumped to introduce todayโ€™s major update to #Windows11. This update brings incredible new features the team built just for you. From bringing the new AI powered Bing to the taskbar to improvements across touch, accessibility and more. blogs.windows.com/windowsexperieโ€ฆ

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Windows Subsystem for Linux 1.1.5 has been released to Windows Insiders. This version adds custom kernel support for ARM64, a new user-visible warning feature, and more: github.com/microsoft/WSL/โ€ฆ

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WSL 1.1.7 is available to Windows Insiders! Lots of good stuff in this change including a bump to kernel version 6.1 and a bunch of bug fixes. github.com/microsoft/WSL/โ€ฆ

Scott Hanselman ๐ŸŒฎ (@shanselman) 's Twitter Profile Photo

This is a weird feeling as Iโ€™ve dedicated my career to sharing othersโ€™ achievements but Iโ€™m gonna to take a moment to celebrate myself. Iโ€™ve been promoted to Vice President of Developer Community at Microsoft!

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WSL has a new update with some big changes! We have some fun new features for you to try, including automatic shrinking of both memory and disk size, and an entirely new networking mode! Check out the blog post for more details: devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/wiโ€ฆ

Scott Hanselman ๐ŸŒฎ (@shanselman) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Big improvements in WSL today! Run "wsl --update --pre-release" as admin to get auto shrinking of memory and disks! And all new networking with ipv6 support