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    Removed the "Preview" label - WSL in the Store is now generally available!
    Use an override in generator.early to prevent the /tmp/.X11-unix socket from being removed during boot
    Don't create a pty for systemd to fix issue where systemd would time out during boot



Didn't realise WSL used systemd now - for a long time it had its own init system.


It's pretty new, released late September. They still have their own init system. If you are using a systemd enabled distro then their init will become a child process of systemd, allowing systemd to have PID 1.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/systemd-support-i...


The creator of systemd works at Microsoft now[0]. Not sure if that factored into the change. systemd seems pretty heavy for VMs, but apparently they still start fast so there must be ways to optimize it.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lennart_Poettering


yeah, I finally (for last month or so) can have LXD based Virtual Environments right in my WSL - saves me from using separate VM for just that




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