NSL is introduced on Show HN as a WSL-style Linux workspace
Availability and conditions refer to the original announcement.
The update, in brief
The creator introduced NSL, which runs development distributions in systemd-nspawn containers inside a shared virtual machine. Its documentation describes a pre-release project without a stable release.
What’s new
- Development machines keep their packages and files between sessions.
- Host files and forwarded local ports connect the workspace to the host.
- An isolated mode uses a separate VM without host-file or desktop access.
Availability details
This date records the Show HN introduction, not the project’s first release. The documented test host is Snow Linux 13 on x86-64; compatibility with other hosts is not established here.
Original sources
2Read the announcement, watch the demo, or hear from the team.
- Post · bketelsen · From the makerShow HN: NSL – WSL for Linuxnews.ycombinator.com ·
- Article · Frostyard · OfficialNSL — Linux development on an atomic hostfrostyard.github.io
More about this release
Demos, launch pages and discussions explicitly connected to this announcement.
- Show HN: NSL – WSL for Linux
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