Flatpak for WSL (Windows 10)?

[Muayyad AlSadi]

Linux namespaces like filesystem namespace needed to create /app /usr /host
structure is a must for flatpak to work
WSL does not provide such features but since MS is working close with
docker maybe there is a hope (currently only docker client work in wsl)

Other than fs namespace, features needed for sandboxing and security shpuld
be optional, because in Windows world people don't care.

Since wayland is merely a protocol, a native gdi/dx compositor might be
implemented in the future.

In that case a special flatpak runtime is needed utilizing such special
cases better than stock fedora/suse flatpak

On Mon, Jul 2, 2018, 4:35 PM Simon McVittie <smcv at collabora.com> wrote:

> 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
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