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Microsoft Makes Fedora an Official Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) Distribution


BrianFagioli writes: 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...

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. 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.

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