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The distribution installation resides inside an ext4-formatted filesystem inside a virtual disk, and the host file system is transparently accessible through the 9P protocol, [54] similarly to other virtual machine technologies like QEMU. [55] For the users, Microsoft promised up to 20 times the read/write performance of WSL 1. [5]
Ubuntu releases are also given code names, using an adjective and an animal with the same first letter – an alliteration, e.g., "Dapper Drake".With the exception of the first two releases, code names are in alphabetical order, and except for the first three releases, the first letters are sequential, allowing a quick determination of which release is newer.
Singularity is a free and open-source computer program that performs operating-system-level virtualization also known as containerization. [4]One of the main uses of Singularity is to bring containers and reproducibility to scientific computing and the high-performance computing (HPC) world.
Malware research software such as ZeroWine [114] runs Wine on Linux in a virtual machine, to keep the malware completely isolated from the host system. An alternative to improve the security without the performance cost of using a virtual machine, is to run Wine in an LXC container, as Anbox software is doing by default with Android.
Windows Installer (msiexec.exe, previously known as Microsoft Installer, [3] codename Darwin) [4] [5] is a software component and application programming interface (API) of Microsoft Windows used for the installation, maintenance, and removal of software. The installation information, and optionally the files themselves, are packaged in ...
The CCM has a component container, where software components can be deployed. The container offers a set of services that the components can use. These services include (but are not limited to) notification, authentication, persistence, and transaction processing. These are the most-used services any distributed system requires, and, by moving ...
Tiny Core Linux (TCL) is a minimal Linux kernel based operating system focusing on providing a base system using BusyBox and FLTK.It was developed by Robert Shingledecker, who was previously the lead developer of Damn Small Linux.
However, as community-developed software has grown more popular [97] [98] [failed verification] and following a statement by the U.S. Library of Congress that permits "jailbreaking" mobile devices, [99] manufacturers and carriers have softened their position regarding CyanogenMod and other unofficial firmware distributions, with some, including ...