Will this be Open Source?

[sirinath]

Hopefully Bash On Windows will be opensource

[bitcrazed]

We have no firm plans as yet, but we're not averse to open-sourcing some of this tech.

[sirinath]

Hopefully you will be slanted towards open sourcing it with well documented internals to get other subsystems like Darwin, BSD, SmartOS or other systems running on Windows.

[BSalita]

There's lots of issues with terminal emulation in the first beta. This is particularly an area where open source availability would quicken the pace of bug fixing and compatibility.

[poizan42]

Can I vote for having lxcore.sys open? Just think of the possibilities in having a starting point for the community to implement other subsystems.

(Am I wrong in assuming that implementing a subsystem requires tight coupling with kernel internals that you don't want to have to keep that way for backwards compatibility in the future?)

[russalex]

Great conversation around open sourcing and we hear the requests. Might I suggest voting on this on our uservoice page?

[RaeesBhatti]

There is actually a very similar open-source project called flinux. Whic is based on the same idea of translating Linux Syscalls to Windows Syscalls. Mabye Windows team can get some inspiration from them 😄

[RaeesBhatti]

I've just created a UserVoice feedback for this idea. Anyone interested can vote for this there.