ETA for Fedora #2584
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When Fedora is ready it will be available on Fall Creators Update. |
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Fedora is not available in the Fall Creators Update. I too have searched far and wide. I have come up empty on any official wording from the Fedora Community. |
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Fedora seems to be advertised as being available when searching for it on the Microsoft Store, and yet it's not actually there. I imagine it must be coming soon if it's mentioned on the store. |
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It's been a month or so, any update? |
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@cwawak I put the question in the Fedora forums under an already existing thread called 'Fedora on the Windows Store' . Still waiting for official response. Feel free to check it out along with the other threads as we'll need to know what issues arise specific to Fedora when it is finally available. This will help ensure the WSL team can focus on all the big things we the community have been pinging them on. |
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Why not you install Fedora from rootfs tarballs (tar.gz)? Those really works in WSL! |
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@Biswa96 I'm looking for an officially supported version to be released so any issues I have can be officially supported either here or by Fedora. The same will go for any other distro that gets released into the Store. Since 2 of my target platforms are CentOS and RHEL, having Fedora officially available would be immensely helpful and make things much easier instead of making conversions from Ubuntu. |
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Is it just me, or does it seem really odd that Microsoft advertises Fedora so prominently on the Microsoft Store, when it still doesn't exist? |
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@ALL: As per Fedora Lead @Mattdm (on Twitter):
Please do ping Matt and ask him for updates - he uses your asks as ammo' ;) |
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I don't use Twitter but if somebody here does and pings him on this, you can add a +1 from me for getting this to the Store or at the least the offline .appx that was shown (barely visible) on the Flock 2017 Youtube video. |
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+1 on this. I've used Fedora since I was 12 and would really much prefer it over Ubuntu or SUSE. |
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I suggest letting Fedora know via their social media channels that this is important to you. The usermode bits belong to them and we can't put them on the store without their permission. |
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I would have imagined @benhillis that any and all bits would be free software and you'd be able to at least distribute? |
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We understand the excitement (and in some cases, importance) about getting Fedora into the store. I can confirm that we are working with Fedora to remedy the non-technical issues that have held-up their publishing their distro and we look forward to @tara-raj being able to share news in the next few weeks. Please bear-with us until then. |
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@thomasfedb We have a policy of not publishing others' IP into the store. We believe that the community would MUCH prefer to see a distro published by the distro owner vs. seeing it published by Microsoft or anyone else that isn't the authoritative source. |
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Cheers @bitcrazed. Good to know it's close to being ready! |
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@bitcrazed any further news on this one? 🤞 |
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Yeah, it's odd that it's been three months and the store still lists Fedora even though it's not actually available. |
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As I suggested above, the ball is in Fedora's court. I suggest letting them know this is important to you. |
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Is there any suggested channel for people without twitter? |
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@mattdm is this something you can update us on? |
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mattdm says it's in Microsoft's court now. Not sure where the disconnect is.
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@benhillis, can you comment on above? Apparently ball is back in your court? |
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@bitcrazed @tara-raj are more up to date on specifics. |
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Should this ticket be closed? Just conscious that it's still being updated and I'm acutely interested in seeing this happen (I'm trying not to grow attached to WSL Ubuntu since I'll be dropping it as soon as this lands). |
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You do realize you can run both of them right? You may even find yourself in a situation in which you'd want to run more than one distro for testing out scenarios. |
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@DarthSpock I believe he was referring to https://github.com/RoliSoft/WSL-Distribution-Switcher , which used to automate the process I described above with docker images, but yes, you are right, I should check that one too. Thank you. |
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While I'm looking forward to see fedora on Windows I don't care that much about which distro I'm running in WSL anyway, as it is neither my desktop, nor server OS and most Linux tools work on any distro anyway. |
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@MikeGitb While I agree in general, I know that there are often differences between distro's when it comes to installing dependencies, and configuring things, and that its generally less error prone to build packages, etc. on the platforms you aim to deploy onto. |
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Any updates? 😃 |
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@mattdm did RH legal get back to you? |
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F28 out now, would be super awesome to play with it in WSL. Any update on the legal ballyhoo? |
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Also waiting eagerly at the moment. No more XAMPP for my local development needs. |
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Looking forward to Fedora on WSL !! |
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Anybody on Twitter want to ping @mattdm on the reply from legal? @bitcrazed anything new from your end? |
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I'm following this. I promise updates when I have something I can share. |
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Is the re any shell script to make Fedora tar.gz file? Like this from Debian by @rhaist: https://salsa.debian.org/rhaist-guest/WSL/blob/master/create-targz.sh |
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@Biswa96 if you've got cygwin, or access to a linux machine, or ubuntu (or any other) on WSL, you can use the tar utility: |
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@Biswa96 If the Docker image doesn't work so well, have you found an image that doesn't have any issues? |
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Sounds like we'd have to strip down the Docker image (or whatever image is the smallest) to as bare-bones as possible just like Kali does it. We could always create a script from there to install anything that was stripped. |
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@Biswa96 Was CentOS a successful attempt? |
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@Biswa96 Oh, and did you try |
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@Biswa96, you asked for a script, I tried to help you. You don't need to be rude. If you don't like it, GitHub is not the place to take it out. Everyone can ask whatever they want. And I asked about CentOS, so you give a tip or something, but nevermind that now. Your personal success doesn't do me any good. |
No. |
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So why close this now? 🤔 |
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Most likely because now it's a RedHat issue, not a WSL issue. |
Has something changed? |
No not really. This since-Fall-of-2017 thread simply wore out its usefulness in the dozen or so posts before it was closed. OP's question (which disregards the first two sentences of CONTRIBUTING.md) was simply answered is all. There is no ETA right now. Keeping this thread open until Fedora pops up in the store tomorrow or in six months from now serves no technical purpose and is not a WSL actionable. |
Sorry for that.
Sad, but good enough for me (actually,I was fine with it being closed back in December 2017). |
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Hello, check this: https://github.com/WhitewaterFoundry/WSLFedoraRemix |
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Sorry, if this has been mentioned already soemwhere, but is there an rough ETA on Fedora? And will it be available for normal Windows FCU or only in insider?
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