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Microsoft Welcomes Fedora Linux As An Official WSL Distro


Microsoft announced today that Fedora Linux is now treated as an official distribution within their Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) confines.

Microsoft announced today that Fedora Linux is now treated as an official distribution within their Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) confines. There is ongoing work to support graphical applications under Fedora Linux on WSL and other features. More details on this official support for Fedora Linux under WSL via today's announcement on the Microsoft Command Line Blog.

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