4 releases
Uses old Rust 2015
0.1.3 | Nov 30, 2017 |
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0.1.2 | Nov 25, 2017 |
0.1.1 | Nov 24, 2017 |
0.1.0 | Nov 22, 2017 |
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YoWSL
YoWSL is yet another Windows Subsystem for Linux tweaker.
The Windows 10 Fall Creators Update has a great feature called
the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL).
YoWSL enables you to register a WSL distro in an arbitrary folder using your
.tar.gz
archive.
This project is in a very early stage of development.
Features
- Register a WSL distro from your
.tar.gz
archive - Unregister a WSL distro
- Get a configuration of a registered WSL distro
- Set a configuration of a registered WSL distro
- Launch a registered WSL distro
Prerequisites
- The Windows 10 Fall Creators Update
- The Windows Subsystem for Linux optional feature. You can install it in PowerShell as Administrator:
> Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName Microsoft-Windows-Subsystem-Linux
- A
.tar.gz
archive that contains all files using a WSL distro. If you installed some WSL distro from the Microsoft Store, you may find someinstall.tar.gz
inC:\Program Files\WindowsApps
Installation
Pre-built binaries
You can download pre-built binaries from
the downloads page.
You will need to extract a .zip
archive and put yowsl.exe
in your paths.
Building
If you have the Rust toolchain, you can build YoWSL with Cargo:
> cargo install yowsl
References
License
YoWSL is distributed under the terms of the Apache License, Version 2.0.
See LICENSE-APACHE-2-0
for details.
Dependencies
~2MB
~27K SLoC