Interesting open projects from Microsoft

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I don’t know why I didn’t include it. I actually made a wiki post on WSL as well that im working to expand.

Getting Windows Subsystem for Linux

This is a quick intro to Windows Subsystem (WSL) for Linux and how to get it installed. [image] [This is a wiki post, feel free to add information, or new sections about WSL with the edit button at the end of this post] Enable and Install Search for: Turn Windows Features on and off (you can press the windows key and search for ‘features’)

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Or You can enable the feature from powershell Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName Microsoft-Windows-Subsystem-Linux You will likely need to reboot at this point as well. Next install a WSL distro. Currently there is only Ubuntu, OpenSUSE Leap 42, and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12. Fedora is scheduled to be included in the near future. You can install these from the Windows Store by searching for “WSL”

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You can also install a distro from the command line, though it is a little more involved. Instructions for this method can be found here https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-on-server Available Distributions Currently available distros: Ubuntu OpenSUSE OpenSUSE professional Debian Kali Linux Distros in the works: Fedora Use You can run the system from the windows start menu (in my case, searching for ubuntu), or via running bash from the command line in cmd or powershell to invoke the default distro. wsl will do the same, or you can specity the distro you want to start, e.g. ubuntu You’ll be asked to create a user and password when you first initialise the system. once done, welcome to your new Linux distro on Windows. Most things works. With newer Windows releases you will have access to better integration. I think the main limitation right now is the lack of X/Wayland support for example. Though this is initially designed for accessing a Linux core system for the power it can provide. You can do some cool things with it like calling Linux commands from Windows Use Cases for WSL C Development on Windows with WSL To setup a C dev environment on Windows with WSL: sudo apt instal…