Alpine WSL

Alpine WSL

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Reviews
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Alpine WSL

App details

Release date

2018-06-19

Last update

2023-02-01

Product ID

9P804CRF0395

Categories

Developer tools

About Alpine WSL

Windows S mode currently NOT supported.

The Sourcecode can be found at: https://github.com/agowa338/WSL-DistroLauncher-Alpine

This app runs through these steps when it is first launched:

  1. Downloads the official Alpine Release from the official website (tar.gz)
  2. Checks it’s sha256 checksum
  3. Let the windows api extract the tar.gz
  4. Change permissions for / to 755 (non recursive)
  5. Install some pre-requirements for better wsl integration
  6. Create a user account
  7. Drop the user into the Alpine Userland

Key features

  • lightweight Linux distribution based on musl libc and Busybox.