Re: Fedora for WSL

2021-06-09 Thread Greg Hellings
Susi, I've updated the repository in GitHub to allow issues to be followed. How did you install the certificate? I had to go through some of the deep Windows internals. Clicking the file and adding it directly wasn't enough, but my machine was also the dev machine so there's lots of things that

Re: Fedora for WSL

2021-06-01 Thread Susi Lehtola
On 5/9/21 1:32 AM, Greg Hellings wrote: > I may be hair-brained to do this, but I've put together an installer for > Fedora on WSL. > > It mostly follows the procedures that had been much talked about in a > blog post about running Fedora 33 in the WSL2, but it uses the direct > installer rather t

Re: Fedora for WSL

2021-05-14 Thread Neal Gompa
On Fri, May 14, 2021 at 1:40 AM Dan Čermák wrote: > > Hi Neal, > > Neal Gompa writes: > > > On Thu, May 13, 2021 at 12:44 PM Matthew Miller > > wrote: > >> > >> On Sun, May 09, 2021 at 12:32:00AM -0500, Greg Hellings wrote: > >> > I may be hair-brained to do this, but I've put together an instal

Re: Fedora for WSL

2021-05-13 Thread Dan Čermák
Hi Neal, Neal Gompa writes: > On Thu, May 13, 2021 at 12:44 PM Matthew Miller > wrote: >> >> On Sun, May 09, 2021 at 12:32:00AM -0500, Greg Hellings wrote: >> > I may be hair-brained to do this, but I've put together an installer for >> > Fedora on WSL. >> >> Hi Greg! Not hair-brained at all --

Re: Fedora for WSL

2021-05-13 Thread Neal Gompa
On Thu, May 13, 2021 at 12:44 PM Matthew Miller wrote: > > On Sun, May 09, 2021 at 12:32:00AM -0500, Greg Hellings wrote: > > I may be hair-brained to do this, but I've put together an installer for > > Fedora on WSL. > > Hi Greg! Not hair-brained at all -- this is awesome! > A couple of years ba

Re: Fedora for WSL

2021-05-13 Thread Matthew Miller
On Sun, May 09, 2021 at 12:32:00AM -0500, Greg Hellings wrote: > I may be hair-brained to do this, but I've put together an installer for > Fedora on WSL. Hi Greg! Not hair-brained at all -- this is awesome! -- Matthew Miller Fedora Project Leader ___

Fedora for WSL

2021-05-08 Thread Greg Hellings
I may be hair-brained to do this, but I've put together an installer for Fedora on WSL. It mostly follows the procedures that had been much talked about in a blog post about running Fedora 33 in the WSL2, but it uses the direct installer rather than the manual side-loads. It also will install Fedo

Re: Is there an official Fedora for WSL?

2020-06-08 Thread Iñaki Ucar
On Mon, 8 Jun 2020 at 10:37, Florian Weimer wrote: > > * Iñaki Ucar: > > > On Mon, 8 Jun 2020 at 07:12, Gordon Messmer > > wrote: > >> > >> > - I found that [1] does a pretty good job replacing /usr/bin/systemctl > >> > [1] https://github.com/gdraheim/docker-systemctl-replacement > >> > >> I onl

Re: Is there an official Fedora for WSL?

2020-06-08 Thread Florian Weimer
* Iñaki Ucar: > On Mon, 8 Jun 2020 at 07:12, Gordon Messmer wrote: >> >> > - I found that [1] does a pretty good job replacing /usr/bin/systemctl >> > [1] https://github.com/gdraheim/docker-systemctl-replacement >> >> I only use WSL for an interactive shell, so I haven't needed to do much >> of a

Re: Is there an official Fedora for WSL?

2020-06-08 Thread Iñaki Ucar
On Mon, 8 Jun 2020 at 07:12, Gordon Messmer wrote: > > > - I found that [1] does a pretty good job replacing /usr/bin/systemctl > > [1] https://github.com/gdraheim/docker-systemctl-replacement > > I only use WSL for an interactive shell, so I haven't needed to do much > of anything with systemd.

Re: Is there an official Fedora for WSL?

2020-06-07 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 6/7/20 5:22 AM, Iñaki Ucar wrote: I tried with Fedora rawhide (which already uses SQLite for the rpm database) and it works fine, but: - Instead of saving the image, a container must be exported: Right, you can export a container, or you can save an image and use the layer tarball inside

Re: Is there an official Fedora for WSL?

2020-06-07 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 6/7/20 12:47 AM, Tomasz Torcz wrote: On Sat, Jun 06, 2020 at 07:15:57PM -0700, Gordon Messmer wrote: The bad news, though, is that current versions of rpm (and dnf) won't work under WSL if you're on a Windows version older than 2004, so you might be stuck with CentOS 7 if you're on an employe

Re: Is there an official Fedora for WSL?

2020-06-07 Thread Iñaki Ucar
On Sun, 7 Jun 2020 at 04:22, Gordon Messmer wrote: > > On 6/2/20 4:52 AM, Code Zombie wrote: > > Is there an official branch of Fedora for WSL or a plan to create one? > > > The good news is that it's reasonably straightforward to install an > unpackaged distributio

Re: Is there an official Fedora for WSL?

2020-06-07 Thread Tomasz Torcz
On Sat, Jun 06, 2020 at 07:15:57PM -0700, Gordon Messmer wrote: > It's not click and run by any means, but it's feasible. > > The bad news, though, is that current versions of rpm (and dnf) won't work > under WSL if you're on a Windows version older than 2004, so you might be > stuck with CentOS 7

Re: Is there an official Fedora for WSL?

2020-06-06 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 6/2/20 4:52 AM, Code Zombie wrote: Is there an official branch of Fedora for WSL or a plan to create one? The good news is that it's reasonably straightforward to install an unpackaged distribution, you just need a tarball of the distribution.  And lots of those are available fo

Re: Is there an official Fedora for WSL?

2020-06-02 Thread Vitaly Zaitsev via devel
On 02.06.2020 13:52, Code Zombie wrote: > If I happen to use Windows in future for e.g. a project or something, I > would love to have fedora by my side.  Just install Fedora in dual boot. Don't use proprietary WSL. -- Sincerely, Vitaly Zaitsev (vit...@easycoding.org) _

Re: Is there an official Fedora for WSL?

2020-06-02 Thread Alexander Ploumistos
distribution. However, I have not used it and don't know much of it. > Is there an official branch of Fedora for WSL or a plan to create one? > I guess it has to be somehow custom Fedora since not all Linux distros are > supported out of the box. > > If I happen to use Windows

Is there an official Fedora for WSL?

2020-06-02 Thread Code Zombie
Hi I recently realized that Windows WSL works by actually installing a Linux distribution. However, I have not used it and don't know much of it. Is there an official branch of Fedora for WSL or a plan to create one? I guess it has to be somehow custom Fedora since not all Linux distro