Pengwin Enterprise

‪Whitewater Foundry, Ltd. Co.‬

Pengwin Enterprise is designed for custom deployments in consultation with Whitewater Foundry's international team of WSL experts. Pengwin Enterprise is a Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) solution that is compatible with Oracle Linux and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. This build provided on the Microsoft Store is built from Scientific Linux, derived from the source code of CentOS, for demonstration purposes and personal use only. Businesses and institutions who wish to license Pengwin Enterprise, use Pengwin Enterprise with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (Red Hat Enterprise Linux subscription required), and obtain a support contract for Pengwin Enterprise should e-mail enterprise@whitewaterfoundry.com or visit https://www.whitewaterfoundry.com for details. Individual end users are very strongly encouraged to obtain Pengwin instead. Pengwin includes end user support and several usability modifications and tools, such as pengwin-setup, to improve the overall WSL experience for end users. The Pengwin Enterprise build provided on the Microsoft Store does NOT include Red Hat Enterprise Linux packages, end user support, pengwin-setup, or the WSL usability features that accompany Pengwin-or that can be built into Pengwin Enterprise in a custom deployment. Whitewater Foundry is a Microsoft Partner, Red Hat Business Partner, and licensee in the Open Innovation Network. WLinux Enterprise is not endorsed by or affiliated with the CentOS Project, Scientific Linux, or Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory.

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$99.99

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Pengwin Enterprise

$99.99

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Features

Compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Use yum.

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Whitewater Foundry, Ltd. Co.

Copyright

https://github.com/WhitewaterFoundry/Pengwin-Enterprise/blob/master/LICENSE.md

Developed by

Whitewater Foundry, Ltd. Co.

Release date

11/29/2018

Approximate size

72.45 MB

Age rating

For all ages

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Access all your files, peripheral devices, apps, programs and registry

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Installation

Get this app while signed in to your Microsoft account and install on up to ten Windows 10 devices.

This product needs to be installed on your internal hard drive.

Language supported

English (United States)

Publisher Info

Pengwin Enterprise website
Pengwin Enterprise support

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Pengwin Enterprise privacy policy
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Pengwin Enterprise license terms
Businesses and institutions who wish to license Pengwin Enterprise, use Pengwin Enterprise with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (official Red Hat subscription required), and obtain support contracts for Pengwin Enterprise should e-mail enterprise@whitewaterfoundry.com or visit https://www.whitewaterfoundry.com for details.

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System Requirements

Minimum
Your device must meet all minimum requirements to open this product
OS	Windows 10 version 17134.0 or higher
Architecture	x64
Keyboard	Integrated Keyboard
Mouse	Not specified

Recommended
Your device should meet these requirements for the best experience
OS	Windows 10 version 17134.0 or higher
Architecture	x64
Keyboard	Integrated Keyboard
Mouse	Integrated Mouse

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Reviewed ByNghi

12/20/2018

Review title of NghiNot usable without lots of works

I wish I read the reviews before buying. Saw an article on crn.com.au and went straight to the store to buy it. Not even sudo came with the package, a lot of works need to be done before it's actually usable. GO WITH UBUNTU instead, it's free and better.

Whitewater Foundry, Ltd. Co. responded on 1/19/2019

We originally intended to mirror upstream server image defaults, which does not include sudo unless manually installed, but based on user feedback we have now include sudo in this build. Thanks for your feedback.

3 out of 4 people found this helpful.

Reviewed ByMontgomery

12/19/2018

Review title of MontgomeryI 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.

1 out of 1 people found this helpful.

Reviewed ByJason

12/18/2018

Review title of JasonWorth $6.99CAD, not sure about $122 though

This is ScientificLinux 7.6 (upstream RH). It is enterprise level. Some things I found off the hop, I had to manually install sudo, telnet, netcat, sysstat, and some other basic tools I would have though this would provide as default considering who they are marketing this towards. It is running 4.4.0-17134 kernel which is the same as the free Ubuntu distribution in the Windows store. At this point, not sure what the advantage is paying for this (I paid 6.99 CAD for it today) versus using the free Ubuntu distro also available. Also, did some poking around and read a review on their WLinux Debian flavor. A PAYING customer wrote a review, and the publisher Whitewater Foundry sent a rather silly reply. The reviewer is right, that for a power-user (which I think he was referring as a "regular user") this offers no benefit over the free Ubuntu in ms store. Any power user could get this setup in no time flat, better than the OOB experience provided by these devs. It's just nice to have RH...

Whitewater Foundry, Ltd. Co. responded on 1/19/2019

The advantage to WLinux Enterprise is support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, advanced Kickstart-based customization, enterprise-level support level agreements, and deployment consulting by our Windows Subsystem for Linux expert team. When you compare the full price of WLinux Enterprise, $100, to the price of the software it allows you to run together, Windows $199-$972 and RHEL $49-$1299, WLinux Enterprise is very reasonable for the enterprise software market. This is a build based on Scientific Linux that we make available for demo reasons. It is also for those devs and Linux users who just need an enterprise Linux WSL distro for their own use. We still recommend WLinux for most WSL users. Thank you for your feedback.

1 out of 1 people found this helpful.

Reviewed ByChris

12/18/2018

Review title of ChrisRHEL in Windows 10... wierd!

Overall it works well for a RHEL kernel in Windows 10. Good for the times you need access to a box running RHEL and do some quick test while on the go. Couple Things: 1. You need to use su to switch user to root 2. sudo isn't install by default. Use su and yum install sudo first thing. Otherwise everything else worked in my tests

1 out of 1 people found this helpful.

Reviewed ByMichal

12/30/2018

Review title of MichalDo not buy this app!!!

After first install I found that yum is not available … OK ?! Then I realize, that man pages are not available , too … KO!! So, this release is really very hard to use … :)

Whitewater Foundry, Ltd. Co. responded on 1/1/2019

Yum is available, you need to su to root to use it. Man pages are trimmed to reduce image file size. They can be installed as root with $ yum install man.

1 out of 2 people found this helpful.

Reviewed ByGerard

12/18/2018

Review title of GerardNot correctly advertised; based on SL 7.6

Not directly based on RHEL or even CentOS, but Scientific Linux (as given in /etc/os-release), version 7.6. This is NOT guaranteed to be compatible with RHEL and/or CentOS.

Whitewater Foundry, Ltd. Co. responded on 12/19/2018

We do not say WLinux Enterprise is based on RHEL. The description very clearly says "The WLinux Enterprise build provided on the Microsoft Store does NOT include Red Hat Enterprise Linux packages" and "The WLinux Enterprise build provided on the Microsoft Store is built from Scientific Linux, derived from the source code of CentOS, for demonstration purposes only." It is very much compatible with RHEL and CentOS. Scientific Linux is a libre rebuild of CentOS. You are free to edit yum to upgrade to those distributions or build WLinux Enterprise from source with your own Linux images based on those distributions and it works fine. Thanks for your feedback.

1 out of 2 people found this helpful.

Reviewed ByGary

12/18/2018

Review title of GaryShould work out of the box... too many errors

Being I paid for this I expect a much better experience...

Whitewater Foundry, Ltd. Co. responded on 12/19/2018

Please visit https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/troubleshooting for some handy tips on troubleshooting WSL installation.

1 out of 2 people found this helpful.

Reviewed ByAndrew

5/9/2019

Review title of Andrewrhel-based distro on WSL v1. Works as advertised.

If you're looking for a full distro, stop looking at WSL. This release is based off of SL. If you're upset about spending actual money on getting a rhel-downstream distro on WSL, save your pennies and build your own.

0 out of 0 people found this helpful.

Reviewed ByJim

5/6/2019

Review title of JimGreat app! Easy switch to RHEL

This is a great App! It comes running Scientific Linux for demo purposes however, you can switch to a different distro like RHEL. Making the switch is pretty straight forward using a few steps. I would have paid the full price not run a Debian based distro since everything our company uses is RHEL. To compliment this app, I also installed the X410 windows app from the store to run graphical applications. I also was able bridged Docker in WSL to the Docker for Windows. If you are an organization that needs to run both RHEL and Windows 10 on the same system this is the app you need.

0 out of 0 people found this helpful.

Reviewed ByJie

1/20/2019

Review title of JieWorking fine for my purpose

If you are experiencing problems mentioned in other reviews, please update to the latest app version. I did not encounter missing sudo or yum images mentioned in other reviews from a fresh install. Works like RHEL/Centos as expected. Comes with a preconfigured wsl.conf. Thank you for bringing this to WSL. The packages are mostly from Scientific Linux distro, not from RHEL/Centos repo.

Whitewater Foundry, Ltd. Co. responded on 2/19/2019

Good to hear you didn't run into any of the early build issues. The packages are from Scientific Linux due to trademark restrictions on other distros, but you can 'upgrade' to those other distributions if you were so inclined.

1 out of 3 people found this helpful.

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