Am 29.01.2018 um 22:00 schrieb Christian Rebischke via arch-dev-public: > Hello everybody, > I would like to start a discussion about Windows Subsystem Linux and > Arch linux. You all might know that Microsoft has increased their > participation in open source software a lot since Satya Nadella is CEO > of Microsoft. > > They even implemented a subsystem on Windows 10 for executing natively > ELF binaries on Windows. This system is based on docker images and some > nice guys from Microsoft have asked Allan and me if Arch Linux would be > interested to participate in this project. > > The steps for getting into the project are: > > * Signup in the Microsoft Appstore (we would get a free voucher if we > want to participate) as Organization (we need the ok from one of our > trademark holders for this step) > * modifying our docker container a little bit > * pushing it into the microsoft appstore > > So what do you think? Should we participate in that project? > > Here are some pros and contras: > > pro: > - CentOS and Ubuntu are there too > - Would be a nice chance to increase the awareness about Arch Linux > - might get people to change from Windows to Arch Linux (or linux in > general) > - Nice way to test our docker image in production > - People who are forced to work on windows at work can use Arch > Linux at work as well > - More bugreports / feedback / forum activity? > > contras: > - Microsoft is Microsoft (I think I don't need to explain) > - More Newbies? > - Somebody would need to maintain it (I would do it) > - If Arch Linux partnerships with Microsoft could lead into bad image? >
I'd like to give some feedback too. Personally, I love WSL, since I am stuck with Windows 10 at work and it gives me certain applications I otherwise don't have. AFAIK, with the "Fall Creators Update" Version, they updated WSL to only be available via the appstore and as far as I can see, this makes installing Arch via other means significantly more difficult. Right now, I only have experience with the version before the fall creators update, and that has issues: * As others mentioned, some glibc functionality relies on certain clone() flags that WSL did/does not support. * pacman needs an LD_PRELOAD hack since it insists on using chroot even without a --root option, but WSL does/did not have chroot. I would hope they fixed these problems by now, but I did not check yet. I personally would love to see an official WSL Arch image, since it's very useful to me. That said, I don't like the way they promote WSL, because it is Linux the way that wine is Windows (read: it isn't).
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