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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. Multiple Linux distributions could be installed and were available for install in the Windows Store. [11]
Ubuntu (/ ʊ ˈ b ʊ n t uː / ⓘ uu-BUUN-too) [8] is a Linux distribution derived from Debian and composed mostly of free and open-source software. [9] [10] [11] Ubuntu is officially released in multiple editions: Desktop, [12] Server, [13] and Core [14] for Internet of things devices [15] and robots.
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.
While Bash was developed for UNIX and UNIX-like operating systems such as GNU/Linux, [14] it is also available on Windows, BeOS, [15] [16] and Haiku. [17]Brian Fox began coding Bash on January 10, 1988, [18] after Richard Stallman became dissatisfied with the lack of progress being made by a prior developer. [7]
PowerShell is a task automation and configuration management program from Microsoft, consisting of a command-line shell and the associated scripting language.Initially a Windows component only, known as Windows PowerShell, it was made open-source and cross-platform on August 18, 2016, with the introduction of PowerShell Core. [5]
The Ubuntu MATE project was founded by Martin Wimpress and Alan Pope [4] and began as an unofficial derivative of Ubuntu, using an Ubuntu 14.10 base for its first release; [5] a 14.04 LTS release followed shortly. [6] As of February 2015, Ubuntu MATE gained the official Ubuntu flavour status from Canonical as per the release of 15.04 Beta 1.
Snap is a software packaging and deployment system developed by Canonical for operating systems that use the Linux kernel and the systemd init system. The packages, called snaps, and the tool for using them, snapd, work across a range of Linux distributions [3] and allow upstream software developers to distribute their applications directly to users.
Ubuntu 11.04 Linux GNU/Linux x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 #46-Ubuntu SMP Tue Jun 28 15:07:17 UTC 2011 2.6.38-10-generic Ubuntu 12.0.4 on Pandaboard ES: Linux GNU/Linux armv7l armv7l armv7l #33-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT Sat Jan 26 00:46:04 UTC 2013 3.2.0-1425-omap4 Ubuntu 20.0.4LTS on Raspberry Pi 4 Model B Linux GNU/Linux aarch64 aarch64 aarch64