25User Rating: 2 out of 5

Review title of Montgomery I like the idea

Having a yum based distro for WSL sounds great. A lot of development is done on RHEL, Centos, and Amazon Linux so being able to have an environment closer to what you work on would be ideal. Currently barely worth $5, let alone $100. I hope they make this better instead of using it as an ad for their consulting service. Unfortunately this packaging seems half baked at this point. It seems like they based this off a Scientific Linux docker image of all things. Permissions are broke with files owned by uid 1001 ( which doesn't even correspond to a user ). Even tmux doesn't work out of the box. I know they are saying they won't support this but I hope they bring it up to the level of Wlinux, so users can have the choice of an apt based, yum based, or both in their WSL. I will adjust my rating if they work on these problems. A system that is the same as Wlinux but using Centos would be ideal. A hacked together system using an SL docker image is not good.

Whitewater Foundry, Ltd. Co. responded on 12/19/2018 WLinux Enterprise can be built with several distributions, including CentOS, RHEL, and Fedora. The demo version in the Store is built with Scientific Linux because of trademark rules on those other distributions. All WSL distros are based on a Docker-style rootfs, so that is not unique to WLinux Enterprise. WLinux Enterprise builds it's rootfs using a standard Kickstart file. We try to make it very clear that WLinux Enterprise is not WLinux and is meant to require further customization at the direction of our enterprise customers, so it is rough around the edges. The $100 USD price tag is for enterprise customers who want customization, edges smoothed, and enterprise-level service agreements, not individual users-they should buy WLinux. That is why we so heavily discount the self-support enthusiast version of WLinux Enterprise, even lower than WLinux. Thanks for your feedback.