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The WSL command-line interface tool is installed by default in Windows 11, but a distribution must be downloaded and installed through it before use. [3] In Windows 10, WSL can be installed either by joining the Windows Insider program or manually via Microsoft Store or Winget .
May 6, 2019: Microsoft announced the second version of Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). Docker, Inc. announced that it had started working on a version of Docker for Windows to run on WSL 2. [63] In particular, this meant Docker could run on Windows 10 Home (previously it was limited to Windows Pro and Enterprise since it used Hyper-V).
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.
At the time of launch, Microsoft deemed Windows 7 (with Service Pack 1) and Windows 8.1 users eligible to upgrade to Windows 10 free of charge, so long as the upgrade took place within one year of Windows 10's initial release date. Windows RT and the respective Enterprise editions of Windows 7, 8, and 8.1 were excluded from this offer.
A distro may also include proprietary software that is not available in source code form, such as a device driver binary. [1] A distro may be described as a particular assortment of application and utility software (various GNU tools and libraries, for example), packaged with the Linux kernel in such a way that its capabilities meet users ...
User control over Windows Updates is removed (except in enterprise versions). In earlier versions, users could opt for updates to be installed automatically, or to be notified so they could update as and when they wished, or not to be notified; and they could choose which updates to install, using information about the updates.
postmarketOS (abbreviated as pmOS) is an operating system primarily for smartphones, based on the Alpine Linux distribution. [3] [4] [5] [6]postmarketOS was launched on 26 May 2017 [4] [7] with the source code available on GitHub before migrating to GitLab in 2018. [8]
EulerOS is a commercial Linux distribution developed by Huawei based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux [2] to provide an operating system for server and cloud environments. [3] [4] Its open-source community version is known as openEuler; the source code of openEuler was released by Huawei at Gitee in 2020.