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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.
Visual Studio Code, commonly referred to as VS Code, [8] is an integrated development environment developed by Microsoft for Windows, Linux, macOS and web browsers. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] Features include support for debugging , syntax highlighting , intelligent code completion , snippets , code refactoring , and embedded version control with Git .
Windows NT versions 3.5, 3.51 and 4.0 were certified as compliant with FIPS 151-2. The runtime environment of the subsystem is provided by two files: psxss.exe and psxdll.dll . A POSIX application uses psxdll.dll to communicate with the subsystem while communicating with posix.exe to provide display capabilities on the Windows desktop.
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]
August 2020: Microsoft announced a backport of WSL2 to Windows 10 versions 1903 and 1909 (previously WSL2 was available only on version 2004) [64] and Docker developers announced availability of Docker for these platforms. [65] August 2021: Docker Desktop for Windows and MacOS was no longer available free of charge for enterprise users.
Windows Subsystem for Linux provides a Linux-compatible kernel interface developed by Microsoft and containing no Linux code, with Ubuntu user-mode binaries running on top of it. [20] Windows Subsystem for Linux version 2 (WSL2) provides a fully functional Linux environment running in a virtual machine.
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.
Starting with version 2.9.0, the official QEMU includes support for HAXM, under the name Hax. [17] QEMU also supports the following accelerators: [17] hvf, Apple's Hypervisor.framework based on Intel VT. whpx, Microsoft's Windows Hypervisor Platform based on Intel VT or AMD-V. tcg, QEMU's own Tiny Code Generator. This is the default.