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HAL for Linux OS was originally envisioned by Havoc Pennington. It became a freedesktop.org project, and was a key part of the software stack of the GNOME and KDE desktop environments . It is free software , dual-licensed under both the GNU General Public License and the Academic Free License .
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 .
WSL 1 is not capable of running all Linux software, such as 32-bit binaries, [42] [43] or those that require specific Linux kernel services not implemented in WSL. Due to a total lack of Linux in WSL 1, kernel modules, such as device drivers, cannot be run. WSL 2, however, makes use of live virtualized Linux kernel instances.
On x86-64 and Itanium platforms there is just one possible hal.dll for each CPU architecture. On Windows 8 and later, the x86 version also only has one HAL. HAL is merged (or statically linked) into ntoskrnl.exe [2] starting with version 2004 of Windows 10, and the dll only serves as a stub for backwards compatibility.
In 2003, 64-bit CPUs were introduced to the mainstream PC market in the form of x86-64 processors and the PowerPC G5. A 64-bit register can hold any of 2 64 (over 18 quintillion or 1.8×10 19) different values. The range of integer values that can be stored in 64 bits depends on the integer representation used.
A hardware abstraction layer (HAL) is an abstraction layer, implemented in software, between the physical hardware of a computer and the software that runs on that computer. . Its function is to hide differences in hardware from most of the operating system kernel, so that most of the kernel-mode code does not need to be changed to run on systems with different hardwa
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Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL 2) Ability to use Windows Hello without the need for a password; Ability to use Windows Hello PIN while in safe mode; Cloud download option to reset Windows; Accessibility improvements; Support Storage Firmware Update that allow updates SSD firmware through Windows Update [6]