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WSL 2 (announced May 2019 [5]), introduced a real Linux kernel – a managed virtual machine (via Hyper-V technology) that implements the full Linux kernel. As a result, WSL 2 is compatible with more Linux binaries as not all system calls were implemented in WSL 1. [6] Microsoft offers WSL for a variety of reasons.
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 .
[5] [6] DebianDog [7] - Debian Live CD shaped after Puppy Linux. It is packaged with JWM and IceWM, or Openbox and Xfce. Debian structure and behaviour are untouched. [8] [9] LinuxConsole - a lightweight system for old computers made to be easy for youth and casual users. MiniOS [10] - a debian based live system with various Desktop Environments.
However, GNOME 3.8 introduced a compile-time choice between the logind and ConsoleKit API, the former being provided at the time only by systemd. Ubuntu provided a separate logind binary, but systemd became a de facto dependency of GNOME for most Linux distributions , in particular since ConsoleKit is no longer actively maintained and upstream ...
Distributed compilations of software based on the Linux kernel that do not by default include systemd. Pages in category "Linux distributions without systemd" The following 56 pages are in this category, out of 56 total.
6.8 10 March 2024 [1] 6.8.12 [4] 30 May 2024 [20] 6.7 8 January 2024 [1] 6.7.12 [4] 3 April 2024 Initial Bcachefs filesystem support [21] Itanium support removed [21] Intel Meteor Lake Graphics declared stable [21] Initial Nouveau support for Nvidia GSP firmware [21]
In February 2024, a malicious backdoor was introduced to the Linux build of the xz utility within the liblzma library in versions 5.6.0 and 5.6.1 by an account using the name "Jia Tan". [ b ] [ 4 ] The backdoor gives an attacker who possesses a specific Ed448 private key remote code execution capabilities on the affected Linux system.
Alpine Linux is a Linux distribution designed to be small, simple, and secure. [3] It uses musl , BusyBox , and OpenRC instead of the more commonly used glibc , GNU Core Utilities , and systemd .