Arch Linux has made its official WSL image fully reproducible, ensuring bit-for-bit identical builds using archived repositories and normalized timestamps.

The Arch Linux project has reached an important infrastructure milestone by making its official Windows Subsystem for Linux image fully reproducible.

In simple terms, this means that the image is now built so that it produces exactly the same result every time. If the image is rebuilt later using the same source, it will be identical down to the last bit.

For everyday users, the benefit is mainly about trust and reliability. It becomes much easier to verify that the image you download has not been altered, tampered with, or accidentally changed during the build process.

I use arch btw

  • BCsven@lemmy.ca
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    8 hours ago

    If you haven’t been exposed to it Windows built a WSL feature you can add in using feature add tool. WSL2 is basically now a VM. You the install the Linux distro of your choosing via a few commands.The W11 version uses an internal remote desktop protocol so you can run graphical Linux apps on Windows. (W10 you can with some monkeying around).

    Basically many MS devs wanted to access Linux without leaving their Windows environment, plus Microsoft has various Linux systems in use these days, so made sense for them to be able to work directly in it at times.