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Microsoft envisions WSL as "a tool for developers – especially web developers and those who work on or with open source projects". [7] Microsoft also claims that "WSL requires fewer resources (CPU, memory, and storage) than a full virtual machine" (a common alternative for using Linux in Windows), while also allowing the use of both Windows ...
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]
MSYS2 ("minimal system 2") is a software distribution and a development platform for Microsoft Windows, based on Mingw-w64 and Cygwin, that helps to deploy code from the Unix world on Windows. It plays the same role the old MSYS did in MinGW. [6]
ChromiumOS (formerly styled as Chromium OS) is a free and open-source Linux distribution designed for running web applications and browsing the World Wide Web.It is the open-source version of ChromeOS, a Linux distribution made by Google.
Nobara Linux [7] is a Linux distribution based on Fedora Linux, [8] it is developed by Thomas Crider, otherwise more colloquially referred to as "Glorious Eggroll", [9] who is also known for developing Proton-GE.
Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (Eidgenössische Forschungsanstalt für Wald, Schnee und Landschaft, WSL) White Star Line, a shipping company, owner of the RMS Titanic; Workers' Socialist League, a UK Trotskyist party
EndeavourOS began as a continuation of the Antergos Linux distribution, a distribution itself based on Arch Linux, a general-purpose Linux distribution.In May 2019, Antergos' developers abruptly announced that development on the project would cease; [6] a moderator of Antergos' forums discussed the idea of maintaining the community on a new forum.
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 ...