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The distribution installation resides inside an ext4-formatted filesystem inside a virtual disk, and the host file system is transparently accessible through the 9P protocol, [55] similarly to other virtual machine technologies like QEMU. [56] For the users, Microsoft promised up to 20 times the read/write performance of WSL 1. [6]
A distro is a collection of software components built, assembled and configured so that it can essentially be used "as is". It is often the closest thing to turnkey form of free software. A distro may take the form of a binary distribution, with an executable installer which can be downloaded from the Internet.
Proton is a compatibility layer that allows Windows software (primarily video games) to run on Linux-based operating systems. [1] Proton is developed by Valve in cooperation with developers from CodeWeavers. [2] It is a collection of software and libraries combined with a patched version of Wine to
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. [6]
Snap is a software packaging and deployment system developed by Canonical for operating systems that use the Linux kernel and the systemd init system. The packages, called snaps, and the tool for using them, snapd, work across a range of Linux distributions [3] and allow upstream software developers to distribute their applications directly to users.
It has out-of-the-box support for Command Prompt, PowerShell, and Bash on Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). [6] It can natively connect to Azure Cloud Shell. [7] Terminal augments the text-based command experience by providing support for: Notebook tabs, to hold multiple instances in a single window; ANSI VT sequence support
[6] [7] A notable example of this are the "BSD Games", a collection of interactive fiction and other text-mode amusements. [8] [9] The free software philosophy and open-source methodology which drove the development of the operating system in general also spawned the creation of various early free games. [10] [11]
The project sought to remove features and programs deemed unnecessary for an init system, as well as address other perceived faults. [133] Project development halted in January 2015. [134] uselessd supported the musl and μClibc libraries, so it may have been used on embedded systems, whereas systemd only supports glibc. The uselessd project ...