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Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) is a feature of Microsoft Windows that allows for using a Linux environment without the need for a separate virtual machine or dual booting. WSL is installed by default in Windows 11. [ 2 ]
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]
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 ...
Windows Terminal is a multi-tabbed terminal emulator developed by Microsoft for Windows 10 and later [4] as a replacement for Windows Console. [5] It can run any command-line app in a separate tab. It is preconfigured to run Command Prompt , PowerShell , WSL and Azure Cloud Shell Connector, [ 6 ] [ 7 ] and can also connect to SSH by manually ...
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).
Cygwin provides native integration of Windows-based applications. [4] The terminal emulator Mintty is the default command-line interface (CLI) provided to interact with the environment. [5] The Cygwin installation directory layout mimics the root file system of Unix-like systems, with directories such as /bin, /home, /etc, /usr, and /var.
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 .
Preview builds of Windows 10, version 2004 Version Release date(s) Highlights 10.0.18836 [3] Skip ahead: February 14, 2019 Added support for directly accessing Linux subsystem files in Windows Subsystem for Linux distro through File Explorer [8] Improvements to WSL command-line interface capability [8] 10.0.18841 [9] Skip ahead: February 22, 2019