Slackware's default kernel for WSLackware and other WSL2 distros

WSLackware is an unofficial version of Slackware for Windows Subsystem for Linux on Windows 10, 11 and Windows Server.

You can find more info about the project, downloading and installation here: https://github.com/Mohsens22/WSLackware/

This is the default kernel 5.15.19 which is included in Slackware's latest stable release, customized to work with WSLackware and other WSL2 distros.

You can download pre-built kernels from the Releases.

Or you can proceed and build it from the source.

IMPORTANT NOTE! READ BEFORE PROCEEDING

This is the first release of this kernel and it is considered as an ALPHA release. It works fine on WSL2, but some features might NOT work, such as WSLg.

Build Instructions

Instructions for building with a WSLackware distribution are as follows:

1. Install the build dependencies (I recommend you to install all packages of d/ series which are development tools):
   $ sudo slackpkg install d
2. Build the kernel using the pre-made kernel configuration:
   $ make KCONFIG_CONFIG=WSLackware/config

Instructions for building with an Ubuntu distribution are as follows:

1. Install the build dependencies:
   $ sudo apt install build-essential flex bison dwarves libssl-dev libelf-dev
2. Build the kernel using the pre-made kernel configuration:
   $ make KCONFIG_CONFIG=WSLackware/config

Install instructions

Please see the documentation on the .wslconfig configuration file for information on using a custom built kernel.

Credits

• Linus Torvalds and all of the Linux community for making this kernel
• Microsoft for WSL2 and kernel patches
• Iouri Tarassov for DirectX and Hyper-V patches

Contributing

You can send me issues and let me know about bugs, missing features or anything that I need to know.