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Red Hat & Microsoft Bringing RHEL To WSL


The latest Linux distribution being brought to Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) with Microsoft's blessing is none other than Red Hat Enterprise Linux..

Their motivation for RHEL on WSL is for hybrid cloud strategies and being able to build Linux apps on a Windows system in the same manner they would do on a bare metal RHEL server. Since last year RHEL Developer on WSL has been possible with some documentation from Red Hat, but now today's announcement seems to be more about making official recognition and support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux under this Microsoft Windows environment. The Microsoft announcement linked to by Red Hat isn't currently resolving.

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