M$ WSL 2 Oracle GNU/Linux 8 systemd & snap & firefox

With M$ WSL 2 you can run Oracle GNU/Linux 8 with systemd & snap

login into your wsl oracle

vi /etc/wsl.conf

[boot]
systemd=true

logout and reboot wsl via CMD or PowerShell

C:> wsl --shutdown

install and enable snap socket

# yum install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-8.noarch.rpm
# dnf install snapd
# systemctl enable --now snapd.socket
# snap install hello-world
# snap install firefox

refs

• https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/systemd-support-is-now-available-in-wsl/

• https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/automatically-configuring-wsl/

• https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/wsl-config

• https://ubuntu.com/blog/ubuntu-wsl-enable-systemd

• https://snapcraft.io/docs/installing-snap-on-red-hat