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WSL beta was introduced in Windows 10 version 1607 (Anniversary Update) on August 2, 2016. Only Ubuntu (with Bash as the default shell) was supported. WSL beta was also called "Bash on Ubuntu on Windows" or "Bash on Windows". WSL was no longer beta in Windows 10 version 1709 (Fall Creators Update), released on October 17, 2017.
Edubuntu, previously known as Ubuntu Education Edition, is an official derivative of the Ubuntu operating system designed for use in classrooms inside schools, homes and communities. [ 1 ] Edubuntu is developed in collaboration with teachers and technologists in several countries.
Bob Amstadt, the initial project leader, and Eric Youngdale started the Wine project in 1993 as a way to run Windows applications on Linux.It was inspired by two Sun Microsystems products, Wabi for the Solaris operating system, and the Public Windows Interface, [10] which was an attempt to get the Windows API fully reimplemented in the public domain as an ISO standard but rejected due to ...
Mobian is a project to port the Debian GNU/Linux distribution running the mainline Linux kernel to smartphones and tablets. [2] The project was announced in 2020. [3] It is available for the PinePhone, PineTab, Librem 5, OnePlus 6/6T and Pocophone F1.
Quarkos (formerly known as Quark) is an official fork of Q4OS that uses an Ubuntu base instead of Debian. [21] It describes itself as a 'user-friendly, desktop oriented operating system based on Ubuntu Linux'. [22] It comes in two variants, one of which uses the same desktop theme as Q4OS, while the other uses a visual theme similar to Windows ...
The Ubuntu Touch project was started in 2011. Mark Shuttleworth announced on 31 October 2011 that by Ubuntu 14.04, the goal was that Ubuntu would support smartphones, tablets, smart TVs and other smart screens (such as car head units and smartwatches), [12] but to date has only been supported by vendors on a few smartphones, one tablet and a number of third-party devices which hobbyists have ...
The IUP Portable User Interface is a computer software development kit that provides a portable, scriptable toolkit to build graphical user interfaces (GUIs) using the programming languages C, Perl, Lua, Nim and Zig, among others. [1] This allows rapid, zero-compile prototyping and refinement of deployable GUI applications.
Linspire (formerly Lindows) is a commercial operating system based on Debian and Ubuntu and currently owned by PC/OpenSystems LLC. It had been owned by Linspire.Inc. from 2001 to 2008, and then by Xandros from 2008 to 2017.