Flatpak for WSL (Windows 10)?

[Simon McVittie]

On Mon, 02 Jul 2018 at 13:46:03 +0200, Sławomir Lach wrote:
> I think it would be nice to create GNU/Linux distribution for WSL (Windows 
> Subsystem for Linux) in Windows 10. Windows Subsystem for Linux is Windows 
> subsystem developed by Canonical and Microsoft. It allows to run Linux 
> programs.

More precisely, it can run a subset of Linux programs. Unless there have
been significant coverage improvements recently, WSL cannot run Flatpak,
because it does not provide various namespaces that are an essential
Linux kernel feature for Flatpak to work.

> Windows Shop now ships many GNU/Linux distributions, such like OpenSuSE, 
> Fedora, etc. What about creating yet one?

I don't see why it would be useful to make a Flatpak-specific
distribution. If WSL could run Flatpak, then anyone could create a WSL
container from a distribution that has Flatpak available as an OS-level
package, such as Fedora or Debian.

    smcv