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WSL 2 (announced May 2019 [6]), introduced a real Linux kernel – a managed virtual machine (via Hyper-V) that implements the full Linux kernel. As a result, WSL 2 is compatible with more Linux binaries as not all system calls were implemented in WSL 1. [7] Microsoft offers WSL for a variety of reasons.
In computing, a system image is a serialized copy of the entire state of a computer system stored in some non-volatile form, such as a binary executable file. If a system has all its state written to a disk (i.e. on a disk image ), then a system image can be produced by copying the disk to a file elsewhere, often with disk cloning applications.
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.
for understanding what data is stored on a disk drive, even if the operating system has removed all metadata. for recovering deleted image files [7] summarizing all deleted files [8] search for files by name or included keyword [9] for use by future historians dealing with computer storage devices
Due to its robustness and compactness, Alpine Linux is tightly integrated with popular developer and system administrator environments and toolsets. Microsoft Store offers a deployment-ready version of Alpine WSL [24] for WSL2; Docker offers official images of Alpine Linux [25] Microsoft PowerShell provides an Alpine Linux specific build [26]
The idea behind tmpfs is similar in concept to a RAM disk, in that both provide a file system stored in volatile memory; however, the implementations are different. While tmpfs is implemented at the logical file system layer, a RAM disk is implemented at the physical file system layer. In other words, a RAM disk is a virtual block device with a ...
A loadable kernel module (LKM) is an executable library that extends the capabilities of a running kernel, or so-called base kernel, of an operating system.LKMs are typically used to add support for new hardware (as device drivers) and/or filesystems, or for adding system calls.
The System Deployment Image (SDI) file format is often used to allow the use of a virtual disk for startup or booting. Some versions of Microsoft Windows allow for "RAM booting ", which is essentially the ability to load an SDI file into memory and then boot from it.