Since its first release Windows NT has supported environment subsystems, essentially individual operating systems based on the NT kernel and using the Windows environment subsystem for IO. Originally, they had boring technical names: Win32 (clrss), OS/2 (os2ss) and POSIX (psxss). Then Citrix developed WinFrame, an improved version of the Windows subsystem, and finally the POSIX subsystem was replaced by a new system with the cool name "Interix".
Interix is dead, unfortunately, and WSL (lxss), Windows Subsystem for Linux, has replaced it. (Windows Subsystem for Linux is really a Linux subsystem for Windows, of course.)
But "WSL" is a rather stupid, inelegant name. "Interix" was a cool name.
So what do you think? What should WSL be called?
Interix is dead, unfortunately, and WSL (lxss), Windows Subsystem for Linux, has replaced it. (Windows Subsystem for Linux is really a Linux subsystem for Windows, of course.)
But "WSL" is a rather stupid, inelegant name. "Interix" was a cool name.
So what do you think? What should WSL be called?