Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
DNF (abbreviation for Dandified YUM) [7] [8] [9] is a package manager for Red Hat-based Linux distributions and derivatives. DNF was introduced in Fedora 18 in 2013 as a replacement for yum; [10] it has been the default package manager since Fedora 22 in 2015 [11] and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 [when?] [12] and is also an alternative package manager for Mageia.
The Windows Package Manager (also known as winget) is a free and open-source package manager designed by Microsoft for Windows 10 and Windows 11. It consists of a command-line utility and a set of services for installing applications. [5] [6] Independent software vendors can use it as a distribution channel for their software packages.
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.
WSL (Beta) (Bash on Ubuntu on Windows) Windows 10 build 14316: Windows 10 version 1607 (Anniversary Update) WSL (no longer Beta) Windows 10 build 16251: Windows 10 version 1709 (Fall Creators Update) WSL 2 (lightweight VM) Windows 10 build 18917: Windows 10 version 2004 (also backported to 1903 and 1909) WSL 2 GPU support: Windows 10 build 20150
Virtualization software allows a single host computer to create and run one or more virtual environments.. Virtualization software is most often used to emulate a complete computer system in order to allow a guest operating system to be run, for example allowing Linux to run as a guest on top of a PC that is natively running a Microsoft Windows operating system (or the inverse, running Windows ...
Hyper-V is a native hypervisor developed by Microsoft; it can create virtual machines on x86-64 systems running Windows. [1] It is included in Pro and Enterprise editions of Windows NT (since Windows 8) as an optional feature to be manually enabled. [2]
Windows 8, 8.1, 10, and Windows Server 2012 w/Hyper-V role, Microsoft Hyper-V Server Supported drivers for Windows NT, FreeBSD, Linux (SUSE 10, RHEL 6, CentOS 6) Proprietary. Component of various Windows editions. INTEGRITY: Green Hills Software: ARM, x86, PowerPC Same as host Linux, Windows
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.