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Well, it has finally happened. Fedora Linux is now officially available as a Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) distribution! That’s right, folks, following prior testing, you can now run Fedora 42 natively inside Windows using WSL. As someone who considers Fedora to be my favorite Linux distribution, this is a pretty exciting development.

Installing it is simple enough. Just open up a terminal and type wsl --install FedoraLinux-42 to get started. After that, launch it with wsl -d FedoraLinux-42 and set your username. No password is required by default, and you’ll automatically be part of the wheel group, meaning you can use sudo right out of the gate.

This WSL release of Fedora 42 doesn’t come bloated with unnecessary packages, which I appreciate. It includes the essentials, like the powerful DNF package manager, and gives users the freedom to build out their system as needed. One thing worth noting is that Flatpak isn’t installed by default, so if you want graphical apps, you’ll need to run sudo dnf install flatpak and then go through the Flathub setup process. It’s an extra step, but nothing too painful.
https://betanews.com/2025/05/06/microsoft-finally-makes-fedora-an-official-windows-subsystem-for-linux-wsl-distribution/

Now years ago, several of us noted that MS could end Linux is short order if they simply created there own version of it and extended it.  Why they never did was beyond me.    They were never shy about hiring coders and engineers from the Linux community, espcially those of a certain ilk.

Then Apple adopted BSD and that really worried us and it had a significant negative affect on the  promotion of Free Software.

MS's embrace of Linux is currently full bore.

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Imagine typing your passwords inside a Microsoft keylogger... why don't you just put them up on a pastebin instead.

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There's at least a half chance MS Windows will dump NT for the the Linux kernel at some point in the not too distant future.
The non free (liberty) Linux devices already outnumber the free ones I think, when you consider Android and ChromeOS.

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There's at least a half chance MS Windows will dump NT for the the Linux kernel at some point in the not too distant future.
The non free (liberty) Linux devices already outnumber the free ones I think, when you consider Android and ChromeOS.


That is the point Richard tried making to Linus over many years.  Richard was complain Linus says he was just an engineer and not a freedom fighter, and Linus would agree.