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  2. Windows Subsystem for Linux - Wikipedia

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    WSL 2, however, makes use of live virtualized Linux kernel instances. It is possible to run some graphical (GUI) applications (such as Mozilla Firefox) by installing an X11 server within the Windows (host) environment (such as VcXsrv or Xming), [44] although not without caveats, such as the lack of audio support (though this can be remedied by ...

  3. Wubi (software) - Wikipedia

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    Cooperative Linux – allows Linux to run within Windows (used by e.g. Topologilinux (Slackware-based) and andLinux) Debian-Installer; Win32-Loader – a similar chain-booting mechanism to install Debian without a CD; UNetbootin – a similar approach for a standard Linux installation (or for creating a Live USB) without a CD

  4. List of alternative shells for Windows - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of software that provides an alternative graphical user interface for Microsoft Windows operating systems. The technical term for this interface is a shell. Windows' standard user interface is the Windows shell; Windows 3.0 and Windows 3.1x have a different shell, called Program Manager. The programs in this list do not restyle ...

  5. Portable application - Wikipedia

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    Programs written with a Unix-like base in mind often do not make any assumptions. Whereas many Windows programs assume the user is an administrator—something very prevalent in the days of Windows 95/98/ME (and to some degree in Windows XP/2000, though not in Windows Vista or Windows 7)—such would quickly result in "Permission denied" errors in Unix-like environments since users will be in ...

  6. Bash (Unix shell) - Wikipedia

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    In computing, Bash (short for "Bourne Again SHell,") [6] is an interactive command interpreter and command programming language developed for UNIX-like operating systems. [7] Created in 1989 [ 8 ] by Brian Fox for the GNU Project , it is supported by the Free Software Foundation and designed as a 100% free alternative for the Bourne shell ( sh ...

  7. Shell (computing) - Wikipedia

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    Interoperability programmes and purpose-designed software lets Windows users use equivalents of many of the various Unix-based GUIs discussed below, as well as Macintosh. An equivalent of the OS/2 Presentation Manager for version 3.0 can run some OS/2 programmes under some conditions using the OS/2 environmental subsystem in versions of Windows NT.

  8. Live CD - Wikipedia

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    Some live CDs can save user-created files in a Windows partition, a USB drive, a network drive, or other accessible media. Live backup CDs can create an image of drives, and back up files, without problems due to open files and inconsistent sets. A few additional uses include: installing a Linux distribution to a hard drive; computer forensics

  9. List of Linux distributions that run from RAM - Wikipedia

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    Tiny Core Linux is an example of Linux distribution that run from RAM. This is a list of Linux distributions that can be run entirely from a computer's RAM, meaning that once the OS has been loaded to the RAM, the media it was loaded from can be completely removed, and the distribution will run the PC through the RAM only.