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Discussion on: Install Fedora 37 or earlier on Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)

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duvjones • Edited

Ok so I managed to use CentOS Stream in lue of Fedora.
My primary reason for the switch honestly has alot to do with Fedora's release cycle.... Fedora moves rather swiftly (give or take, A new Fedora every 6-9 months) and CentOS Stream moves slower(every 5 years). For something that is going to be on my window partition, CentOS makes alot more sense for me.
I ended up using the rootfs method. For those that care, the best way to go about that is to click on cloud install on CentOS which will bring you to this directory, and then grabbed the

CentOS-Stream-Container-Base-9-latest.x86_64.tar.xz
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file while follow the rest of the instructions.

Just thought that I mention it if you care....

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Jonathan Bowman

I love this! Choosing CentOS Stream makes perfect sense. Thanks for the links to the rootfs!

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duvjones

Hello again....
Well, I can't say that the CentOS community doesn't do work. I was poking around the Project when I noticed something.
So this happened.... Yeah... everything that I did last year to get it running, forget it. The community just built a set of WSL images for CentOS Stream 9, and that page is a rather easy set of instructions to do it with.

Enjoy.

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Jonathan Bowman

This is great news! Thank you.

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duvjones

You are welcome.
Given that this happened in CentOS and was recently updated to 10, their has been some discussion about this happening in Fedora proper but I have yet to see anything on that yet outside of chatter.