Windows Subsystem for Linux 2.0 release

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  • WSL

    Issues found on WSL

    • There are several issues in the repo related this bug, here's another one with over 500 comments:

    https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/6982

    Almost 1000 total comments between both of these and basically no acknowledgement from microsoft.

  • wsl-vpnkit

    Provides network connectivity to WSL 2 when blocked by VPN

    • I'm going to wait a while to see how the new VPN stuff works out. Previously WSL2 didn't work with a Windows VPN without an extra tool ( https://github.com/sakai135/wsl-vpnkit ), hopefully this might fix things, but not going to risk trying it in case it breaks everything.

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  • WSL2-Linux-Kernel

    The source for the Linux kernel used in Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL2)

    • This was true for WSL1, but WSL2 does contain a Linux kernel. The source code for it is available at:

    https://github.com/microsoft/WSL2-Linux-Kernel

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