{"id":103780,"date":"2020-03-14T21:03:07","date_gmt":"2020-03-15T04:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/windows-10s-built-in-linux-kernel-will-be-available-to-everyone-soon"},"modified":"2020-03-14T21:03:07","modified_gmt":"2020-03-15T04:03:07","slug":"windows-10s-built-in-linux-kernel-will-be-available-to-everyone-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/windows-10s-built-in-linux-kernel-will-be-available-to-everyone-soon","title":{"rendered":"Windows 10\u2019s built-in Linux kernel will be available to everyone soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/windows-10s-built-in-linux-kernel-will-be-available-to-everyone-soon2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You won\u2019t have to be a tester to try <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2019\/06\/13\/windows-10-linux-subsystem\/\" data-rapid_p=\"1\" data-v9y=\"1\">Windows 10\u2019s new, built-in Linux kernel<\/a> in the near future. Microsoft has <a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/commandline\/wsl2-will-be-generally-available-in-windows-10-version-2004\/\" data-rapid_p=\"2\" data-v9y=\"1\">confirmed<\/a> that Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 will be widely available when Windows 10 version 2004 arrives. You\u2019ll have to install it manually for a \u201cfew months\u201d until an update adds automatic installs and updates, but that\u2019s a small price to pay if you want Linux and Windows to coexist in peace and harmony. It\u2019ll be easier to set up, at least \u2014 the kernel will now be delivered through Windows Update instead of forcing you to install an entire Windows image.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You won\u2019t have to be a tester to try Windows 10\u2019s new, built-in Linux kernel in the near future. Microsoft has confirmed that Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 will be widely available when Windows 10 version 2004 arrives. You\u2019ll have to install it manually for a \u201cfew months\u201d until an update adds automatic installs and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}