← Back to context Comment by advisedwang 18 hours ago It would be fun to call it Windows Subsystem for Linux! 5 comments advisedwang Reply sedatk 16 hours ago which would be the right use of the term. WSL was originally called LXSS = linux subsystem. As I understand, lawyers stepped in soon after. sunaookami 15 hours ago They already did the same thing 25 years ago with "Windows Services for UNIX": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Services_for_UNIX wmf 13 hours ago Which is also backwards. throwaway27448 14 hours ago The two terms seem semantically identical (i.e., ambiguous and therefore meaningless) to me.
sedatk 16 hours ago which would be the right use of the term. WSL was originally called LXSS = linux subsystem. As I understand, lawyers stepped in soon after. sunaookami 15 hours ago They already did the same thing 25 years ago with "Windows Services for UNIX": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Services_for_UNIX wmf 13 hours ago Which is also backwards. throwaway27448 14 hours ago The two terms seem semantically identical (i.e., ambiguous and therefore meaningless) to me.
sunaookami 15 hours ago They already did the same thing 25 years ago with "Windows Services for UNIX": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Services_for_UNIX wmf 13 hours ago Which is also backwards.
throwaway27448 14 hours ago The two terms seem semantically identical (i.e., ambiguous and therefore meaningless) to me.
which would be the right use of the term. WSL was originally called LXSS = linux subsystem. As I understand, lawyers stepped in soon after.
They already did the same thing 25 years ago with "Windows Services for UNIX": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Services_for_UNIX
Which is also backwards.
The two terms seem semantically identical (i.e., ambiguous and therefore meaningless) to me.