Re: Running debian on WSL (windows-system-for-linux)

2021-03-29 Thread Dan Hitt
On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 7:01 PM Gregory Seidman < gsslist+deb...@anthropohedron.net> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 25, 2021 at 08:02:32PM -0700, Dan Hitt wrote: > > Does anybody have any experience running debian on a WSL > > (windows-system-for-linux) machine? > > Yes, I use WSL2 on my work machine and ru

Re: Running debian on WSL (windows-system-for-linux)

2021-03-26 Thread David Christensen
On 3/26/21 12:37 PM, David Christensen wrote: AIUI ... there is no such thing as installing another Linux distribution on top of WSL. Right and wrong -- you can install a WSL 2 version of Debian GNU/Linux into WSL 2 via the Microsoft Store: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/

Re: Running debian on WSL (windows-system-for-linux)

2021-03-26 Thread Gregory Seidman
On Thu, Mar 25, 2021 at 08:02:32PM -0700, Dan Hitt wrote: > Does anybody have any experience running debian on a WSL > (windows-system-for-linux) machine? Yes, I use WSL2 on my work machine and run Debian in it. [...] > In particular, i would like to > (a) be able to remotely access the WSL debia

Re: Running debian on WSL (windows-system-for-linux)

2021-03-26 Thread Linux-Fan
Dan Hitt writes: Does anybody have any experience running debian on a WSL (windows-system-for- linux) machine? Yes, limited experience with it here :) I need to get a machine for family use, but i would also like to be able to also use it myself.  So i would like to be able to ssh in, back

Re: Running debian on WSL (windows-system-for-linux)

2021-03-26 Thread David Christensen
On 3/25/21 8:02 PM, Dan Hitt wrote: Does anybody have any experience running debian on a WSL (windows-system-for-linux) machine? I need to get a machine for family use, but i would also like to be able to also use it myself. So i would like to be able to ssh in, back up files into it, and do ot

Re: Running debian on WSL (windows-system-for-linux)

2021-03-26 Thread tomas
On Thu, Mar 25, 2021 at 11:23:05PM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > Does anybody have any experience running debian on a WSL [...] > So maybe you can just ditch the Windows part, :-) Some aren't so lucky. Microsoft's latest trick is to outsource the compulsory part to employers (they've got the

Re: Running debian on WSL (windows-system-for-linux)

2021-03-26 Thread john doe
On 3/26/2021 4:02 AM, Dan Hitt wrote: Does anybody have any experience running debian on a WSL (windows-system-for-linux) machine? I'm not able to directly answer your question but I wanted to point out that you could also look at Cygwin or Qemu. In the case of Qemu, Debian would be the host

Re: Running debian on WSL (windows-system-for-linux)

2021-03-25 Thread Kushal Kumaran
On Thu, Mar 25 2021 at 08:02:32 PM, Dan Hitt wrote: > Does anybody have any experience running debian on a WSL > (windows-system-for-linux) machine? > I use WSL (not the newer WSL2) on a work computer. > I need to get a machine for family use, but i would also like to be able to > also use it my

Re: Running debian on WSL (windows-system-for-linux)

2021-03-25 Thread Peter Ehlert
On 3/25/21 8:23 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote: Does anybody have any experience running debian on a WSL (windows-system-for-linux) machine? I don't, sorry. I need to get a machine for family use, but i would also like to be able to also use it myself. But I do have experience with using Debian f

Re: Running debian on WSL (windows-system-for-linux)

2021-03-25 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Does anybody have any experience running debian on a WSL > (windows-system-for-linux) machine? I don't, sorry. > I need to get a machine for family use, but i would also like to be able to > also use it myself. But I do have experience with using Debian for "the family computer". So maybe you

Running debian on WSL (windows-system-for-linux)

2021-03-25 Thread Dan Hitt
Does anybody have any experience running debian on a WSL (windows-system-for-linux) machine? I need to get a machine for family use, but i would also like to be able to also use it myself. So i would like to be able to ssh in, back up files into it, and do other tasks, maybe even a little program