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Microsoft: GPU Support for WSL 2 available

Microsoft has released the latest Insider Build 20150 for Windows 10 in its Dev Channel released. Experimental users can use thus for the first time, the GPU Support in the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) by the company on its in-house fair Build presented about a month ago has. At the time, also announced support for the use of graphical interfaces is not ready yet, used only the so-called Compute-applications can be so.

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As the manufacturer in his Commandline Blog writesthis, among other things, the support for NVIDIA’s Cuda Framework. In addition, Microsoft’s own Machine-Learning Framework DirectML can be used to make appropriate calculations with hardware acceleration on the GPU to execute. The latter should work with GPUs from AMD, Intel and Nvidia. Details the company provides in another blog post ready.

With the current Insider Build the WSL Team is also introducing two new and helpful command-line commands. So can wsl.exe –install the WSL can be quickly and easily activated, if this has not happened yet. The tool should in the future be extended to include the ability of the distributions to select and install directly. This has been done via the Windows Store.

The new tool wsl.exe –update a simple control that provides, in addition to possibility for the now Windows released Updates to the Linux kernel. Microsoft distributes Updates now similar to drivers and other external components, which should allow faster Updates. With the new Updates but not only manually enable, but in case of any errors are also reset to change to the previous version.

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