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Beigi was dismayed at Microsoft's lack of attribution of AppGet. The release of winget led Beigi to announce that AppGet would be discontinued in August 2020. [8] [9] [10] Microsoft responded with a blog post crediting a number of winget's features to AppGet. [11] [12] [13] Microsoft released version 1.0 of Windows Package Manager on May 27, 2021.
Chocolatey [5] is a machine-level, command-line package manager and installer for software on Microsoft Windows. It uses the NuGet packaging infrastructure and Windows PowerShell to simplify the process of downloading and installing software. [6] The name is an extension on a pun of NuGet (from "nougat") "because everyone loves Chocolatey ...
Scoop is a command-line package manager for Microsoft Windows, used to download and install apps, as well as their dependencies.. Scoop is often used for installing web development tools and other software development tools.
Windows Package Manager (aka winget): Free and open-source package manager designed for Microsoft Windows; Chocolatey: Open-source decentralized package manager for Windows in the spirit of Yum and apt-get. Usability wrapper for NuGet; Cygwin: Free and open-source software repository for Windows NT.
NuGet (pronounced "New Get") [3] is a package manager, primarily used for packaging and distributing software written using .NET and the .NET Framework. The Outercurve Foundation initially created it under the name NuPack.
An early package manager was SMIT (and its backend installp) from IBM AIX. SMIT was introduced with AIX 3.0 in 1989. [citation needed]Early package managers, from around 1994, had no automatic dependency resolution [3] but could already drastically simplify the process of adding and removing software from a running system.
WSL is installed by default in Windows 11. [3] In Windows 10, it can be installed either by joining the Windows Insider program or manually via Microsoft Store or Winget. [4] The original version, WSL 1, differs significantly from the second major version, WSL 2.
Patch Tuesday [1] (also known as Update Tuesday [1] [2]) is an unofficial term used to refer to when Microsoft, Adobe, Oracle and others regularly release software patches for their software products. [3] It is widely referred to in this way by the industry. [4] [5] [6] Microsoft formalized Patch Tuesday in October 2003.