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WSL beta was introduced in Windows 10 version 1607 (Anniversary Update) on August 2, 2016. Only Ubuntu (with Bash as the default shell) was supported. WSL beta was also called "Bash on Ubuntu on Windows" or "Bash on Windows". WSL was no longer beta in Windows 10 version 1709 (Fall Creators Update), released on October 17, 2017.
Microsoft also uses Azure Linux in Azure IoT Edge to run Linux workloads on Windows IoT, and as a backend distro to host the Weston compositor for WSLg. [7] In a similar approach to Fedora CoreOS, Azure Linux only has the basic packages needed to support and run containers. Common Linux tools are used to add packages and manage security updates.
It is the open-source version of ChromeOS, a Linux distribution made by Google. ChromiumOS is based on the Linux kernel, like ChromeOS, but its principal user interface is the Chromium web browser rather than the Google Chrome browser. ChromiumOS also includes the Portage package manager, which was originally developed for Gentoo Linux. [4]
A boot menu in Windows 7 showing options to start Ubuntu, which was added by the Wubi installer. Wubi adds an entry to the Windows boot menu which allows the user to run Linux. Ubuntu is installed within a file in the Windows file system (c:\ubuntu\disks\root.disk), as opposed to being installed within its own partition.
The Android Runtime for Chrome is a partially open-sourced project under development by Google. [1] It was announced by Sundar Pichai at the Google I/O 2014 developer conference. [ 2 ] In a limited beta consumer release in September 2014, [ 3 ] Duolingo, Evernote, Sight Words, and Vine Android applications were made available in the Chrome Web ...
WebKit is used as the rendering engine within Safari and was used by Google's Chrome web browser on Windows, macOS, and Android (before version 4.4 KitKat). Chrome used only WebCore, and included its own JavaScript engine named V8 and a multiprocess system. [ 48 ]
Bob Amstadt, the initial project leader, and Eric Youngdale started the Wine project in 1993 as a way to run Windows applications on Linux.It was inspired by two Sun Microsystems products, Wabi for the Solaris operating system, and the Public Windows Interface, [10] which was an attempt to get the Windows API fully reimplemented in the public domain as an ISO standard but rejected due to ...
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.