wsldl
Advanced WSL launcher / installer. (Win10 FCU x64/arm64 or later.) (by yuk7)
go-wsl2-host
Automatically update your Windows hosts file with the WSL2 VM IP address (by shayne)
| wsldl | go-wsl2-host | |
|---|---|---|
| 5 | 3 | |
| 1,807 | 1,658 | |
| 1.1% | -0.2% | |
| 7.4 | 0.0 | |
| 7 days ago | 7 months ago | |
| Go | Go | |
| MIT License | - |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
wsldl
Posts with mentions or reviews of wsldl.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-03-19.
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wsldl : more linux distros of wsl2
I generally recommend just DIYing your WSL distro: https://github.com/yuk7/wsldl
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First time I ever paid for fedora
You can install a ton of distros for free: https://github.com/yuk7/wsldl
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On a scale of 1-10, how much do you hate it?
https://github.com/yuk7/wsldl combined with a tarball of the base root system (Gentoo is easy because that's how a system starts off anyway).
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Custom WSL Distributions
For installing the distribution we'll be using WSLDL, start by downloading the latest version of the Launcher.exe executable, rename it to your distribution's name of choice, such as oraclelinux.exe and place your created rootfs.tar.gz file beside it, move them into a directory where you want to install your WSL filesystem, and finish off by running the launcher executable we downloaded and renamed earlier, and.. you're done, the distribution is now installed into WSL and you can configure and setup everything as you need.
go-wsl2-host
Posts with mentions or reviews of go-wsl2-host.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects.
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Fixed IP for WSL instances
But that's still tedious, and someone worked on that problem. Here comes WSL2Host.
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Trying to connect from host to WSL2 using WSL2's hostname
You can add that entry to your windows host file (C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts), but it will change when WSL restarts. There are utilities that automate this addition at boot time.
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How Good is the Development Experience in Windows with WSL2 in 2021?
I've had some issues with getting addresses resolving correctly but this tool https://github.com/shayne/go-wsl2-host works pretty good (you just type in lists of hosts and service refreshes etc file whenever WSL2 IP changes (and it changes with every reboot).
What are some alternatives?
When comparing wsldl and go-wsl2-host you can also consider the following projects:
ArchWSL - ArchLinux based WSL Distribution. Supports multiple install.
docker-to-wsl - Build your own wsl distro in docker, based on this example: https://gist.github.com/K0IN/485b6c9e442d10aa666c28672d621604
LinuxmintWSL2 - Linux mint on wsl2 using wsldl
win-gpg-agent - [DEPRECATED] Windows helpers for GnuPG tools suite
Fedora-Remix-for-WSL - Fedora Remix for Windows Subsystem for Linux.
wsl2-ssh-pageant - bridge between windows pageant and wsl2