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WSL 2 (announced May 2019 [6]), introduced a real Linux kernel – a managed virtual machine (via Hyper-V technology) that implements the full Linux kernel. As a result, WSL 2 is compatible with more Linux binaries as not all system calls were implemented in WSL 1. [7] Microsoft offers WSL for a variety of reasons.
The article details mostly about the WSL 1 --> WSL 2 switch. Instead, it should talk about WSL in general. Beside some advantages of WSL2, it has also huge disadvantages (like the decrease of the disk bandwidth below about 1/20, or setting up hard limits to RAM usage). The article does not even want to mention them.
nwipe was created to allow dwipe to be run outside DBAN, using any host distribution. It utilizes a simple text-based ncurses user interface or can be run directly from the command line . It is available as an installable package in the repositories of many Linux distributions , including Debian and Ubuntu .
Azure Linux, previously known as CBL-Mariner (in which CBL stands for Common Base Linux), [3] is a free and open-source Linux distribution that Microsoft has developed. It is the base container OS for Microsoft Azure services [ 4 ] [ 5 ] and the graphical component of WSL 2 .
This article documents the version history of the Linux kernel.. Each major version – identified by the first two numbers of a release version – is designated one of the following levels of support:
The table below shows general information about the distributions: founder or producer, maintainer, release date, the latest version, etc. Linux distributions endorsed by the Free Software Foundation [1] are marked 100% Free under the System distribution commitment column.
Alpine Linux is a Linux distribution designed to be small, simple, and secure. [3] It uses musl, BusyBox, and OpenRC instead of the more commonly used glibc, GNU Core Utilities, and systemd.
Synchronized to Single UNIX Specification (SUS) version 3; 2.0.1: Released October 21, 2004, ISO version of LSB 2.0, which included specification for all hardware architectures (except LSB-Graphics, of which only a generic version is available). 2.1: Released March 11, 2005. 3.0: Released July 1, 2005. Among other library changes: