{"id":976,"date":"2017-05-11T00:00:05","date_gmt":"2017-05-11T08:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/commandline\/?p=976"},"modified":"2019-04-01T16:50:16","modified_gmt":"2019-04-01T23:50:16","slug":"new-distros-coming-to-bashwsl-via-windows-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/commandline\/new-distros-coming-to-bashwsl-via-windows-store\/","title":{"rendered":"New distros coming to Bash\/WSL via Windows Store"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re REALLY excited about this announcement and think many of you will be too \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>On May 11th 2017, during <a href=\"http:\/\/build.microsoft.com\/\">Microsoft&#8217;s Build conference <\/a>keynote, Terry Myerson (EVP for Windows &amp; Devices Group) made several announcements about the Windows Subsystem for Linux:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>We continue our partnership with our friends at Canonical to bring Ubuntu to the Windows Store app<\/li>\n<li>We are also working with the great teams at SUSE and Fedora to bring their Linux distros to the Windows Store &amp; Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)<\/li>\n<li>You will be able to download these distros from the store and install them side-by-side on your PC(s)<\/li>\n<li>You&#8217;ll be able to run one or more distros simultaneously if you wish<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>And at OSCON 2017 I delivered a talk on the architecture and history of Bash\/WSL, and outlined these new features. Thanks to the great OSCON audience &amp; attendees for all your great support &amp; engagement \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>These new features deliver several key benefits including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You&#8217;ll enjoy faster and more reliable downloads<\/li>\n<li>You can run different distros aligned more closely with your production environments and\/or personal preferences<\/li>\n<li>You can run more than one distro at a time &#8211; great for when you need to work on systems that span different environments<\/li>\n<li><del>You can install your distros to secondary fixed drives (i.e. not C:!)<\/del> <em>[Update 2017-07-24: Alas, this didn&#8217;t fit in the Fall Creators Update schedule; we&#8217;re looking into this feature for a future release]<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/33\/2019\/04\/Multi-distro.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" height=\"838\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-995\" alt=\"multi-distro\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/33\/2019\/02\/Multi-distro-1280x838.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>WSL was always designed to be distro-agnostic and this is the first time we&#8217;re exercising this aspect of the system. As always, we greatly appreciate any testing you can help us with, and if you find problems, please file bugs in <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/microsoft\/BashOnWindows\">our GitHub issues repo<\/a>. We can&#8217;t wait to hear how you get on installing via the store and running different and multiple distros!<\/p>\n<p>These new features will arrive in an up-coming Windows Insider build. If you&#8217;d like to be among the first to try-out these new distros, be sure to sign-up for the Windows Insider program, and configure your Win10 machine to install fast-ring builds.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/richturn_ms\">Rich Turner<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re REALLY excited about this announcement and think many of you will be too \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":910,"featured_media":4402,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,12,14,15,5,8,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-distros","category-fedora","category-suse","category-ubuntu","category-windows-10","category-windows-store","category-bash-on-ubuntu-on-windows"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>We&#8217;re REALLY excited about this announcement and think many of you will be too \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/commandline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/commandline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/commandline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/commandline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/910"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/commandline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/commandline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/commandline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/commandline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/commandline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/commandline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}