Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) llega a Windows Subsystem for Linux de manera oficial. Both companies have announced it in unison, ensuring that it is the most important launch in recent times as part of this initiative, nurtured by both parts of the ecosystem. Two don’t fight if one doesn’t want to, it is often said, and here no one wants to fight.
“Many enterprise IT organizations and developer teams have standardized on Windows environments. For developers who need to create Linux applications on Windows desktops, Microsoft provides Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), which allows you to run Linux environments. Linux on Windows without having to activate a virtual machine (VM),” explains Ronald Pacheco, Director of Linux Business and Ecosystem Strategy at Red Hat.
“For developers who need to build Linux applications on a Windows system but then deploy them to a RHEL environment, being able to use the same RHEL over WSL as they would for production can be a significant time and resource saver,” he continues, without giving much more information about this launch. But that’s what Microsoft is for, where they take advantage of the monthly report with WSL news to break the news and a lot of other information.
In fact, the WSL news is the most interesting thing that Microsoft publishes, since there are considerable changes, for the better, in the experience of using WSL from which new users will especially benefit, who want to use RHEL or any other Linux distribution on Windowswhether or not it is available in the Microsoft Store.
In this sense, a few months ago Microsoft updated the documentation to use any Linux distribution with WSL, a process a little more tedious than using what is available by default, but not for alternatives. Among others, Ubuntu, Fedora, openSUSE… Although, for some reason, Red Hat had until now resisted taking the step on its own.
It is worth remembering that in just a couple of years the first decade of the WSL will be celebrated, that’s nothing, just a couple of years ago, pardon the redundancy, since WSL 1.0 was launched, a first round and stable version in the that a very notable carryover of changes was recorded. Since then, however, it has continued its march without attracting much attention.
But, be careful with WSL, because even components as closely linked to the Linux desktop as Mesa contemplate it. The cheetah is silent…
In another order of things, to truly enjoy the experience, there is nothing better than the original and just a week ago Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.5, the new version of the business operating system, was released.
