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  2. Windows Subsystem for Linux - Wikipedia

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    Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) is a feature of Microsoft Windows that allows the use of a GNU/Linux environment from within Windows, foregoing the overhead of a virtual machine and being an alternative to dual booting.

  3. Microsoft POSIX subsystem - Wikipedia

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    A POSIX application uses psxdll.dll to communicate with the subsystem while communicating with posix.exe to provide display capabilities on the Windows desktop. The POSIX subsystem was replaced in Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 by "Windows Services for UNIX", [2] (SFU) which is based in part on OpenBSD code and other technology developed by ...

  4. Windows Services for UNIX - Wikipedia

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    Windows Services for UNIX (SFU) is a discontinued software package produced by Microsoft which provided a Unix environment on Windows NT and some of its immediate successor operating-systems. SFU 1.0 and 2.0 used the MKS Toolkit ; starting with SFU 3.0, SFU included the Interix subsystem, [ 1 ] which was acquired by Microsoft in 1999 from US ...

  5. WSL - Wikipedia

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    Windows Subsystem for Linux, a part of Microsoft Windows 10 and Windows 11 which allows the installation of Linux distributions. Organisations

  6. Talk:Windows Subsystem for Linux - Wikipedia

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    Only software designed for the GNU API runs under Windows Subsystem for Linux. That is, software designed for GNU/Linux in mind. This affects the ELF format too, because GNU software adds its own fields to an ELF binary. This article is written as if the software targeting other APIs worked/was supported. It is not.

  7. Environmental subsystem - Wikipedia

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    Environmental subsystems are central components of operating systems of the Windows NT type. They allow the operating system to run software developed for the platform in question. For example, Windows NT 4.0 has four environmental subsystems, for example Win32, DOS or Win16, OS/2, and POSIX, the latter of which is a Unix standard. [1]

  8. Microsoft Windows library files - Wikipedia

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    USER32.DLL implements the Windows USER component that creates and manipulates the standard elements of the Windows user interface, such as the desktop, windows, and menus. It thus enables programs to implement a graphical user interface (GUI) that matches the Windows look and feel. Programs call functions from Windows USER to perform operations ...

  9. Criticism of Linux - Wikipedia

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    The first-generation Nexus 7 tablet running Android, an operating system using the Linux kernel. While Linux-based operating systems are in common use in tablet computers, they are less frequently adopted as desktop computers. The criticism of Linux focuses on issues concerning use of operating systems which use the Linux kernel.