Enter the account you used to sign into the Windows Insider Program.Īs of this writing, Windows Insider version 19041.1 was available on the slow ring.
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Go to Settings > Update & Security > Windows Insider Program and click Get Started to access the latest build.
(Beta was in the Windows 10 “Anniversary Update Creators Update”, then “Fall Creators Update”) Windows Insider BuildĪs of this writing, WSL is in Preview, so Register to be in the Windows Insider. If your OS Build is not 18917 or higher, update. Get your Windows Server build number within PowerShell: systeminfo | Select-String "^OS Name","^OS Version" Windows 10 BuildĪlternately, if you have configured PowerShell to run commands,
The technical explanation is that WSL currently runs ELF64 Linux binaries. If your System type is not “64-bit”, get a computer that is. Start: Click the Windows icon or keyboard key to Verify your PC’s CPU architecture and Windows version/build number: WSL provides no GPU support, so it can’t run Linux GUI programs such as Gnome, KDE, etc. NTFS (New Technology File System) is the file system controlling hard drives. Lxcore.sys is the driver that recognizes Bash commands and other Linux utilities such as chmodįrom inside Windows, VolFS gets to Linux symbolic files and its case sensitivity. VIDEO and BLOG: Scott Hanselman explains it all: VS Code with Remote Extension, Docker, and the Windows Terminal. I began looking into Microsoft’s WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) at its first “beta” release on June 2017.