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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 ...
Q4OS is a light-weight Linux distribution, based on Debian, targeted as a replacement for operating systems that are no longer supported on outdated hardware. [3] The distribution is known for an addon called XPQ4, which adds themes intended to replicate the look and feel of Windows 2000, XP, 7, 8 and 10. [4] [5] [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 .
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.
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.
Development was started in 2014 by Manjaro community member Teo Mrnjavac “with support from Blue Systems” [9] [10] and then picked up by KaOS. [11] Calamares is currently maintained by the Calamares team, most of which are KDE Developers and has no exclusive association with any Linux distribution. Calamares is not a KDE, KaOS or Manjaro ...
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, a multi-kernel project incubated and operated by the OpenAtom Foundation; the source code of openEuler was released by Huawei at Gitee, EulerOS itself officially ...
WSL lets Linux ELF binaries run on Windows through a managed Virtual Machine. Cygwin provides a full POSIX environment (as a windows DLL) in which applications, compiled as Windows EXEs, run as they would under Unix. [7] Instead of providing a full environment like Cygwin does, MSYS2 tasks itself with being a development and deployment platform ...