Real, dated releases and announcements — verified against official sources, not speculation.
Microsoft and Canonical's September 2022 announcement closed one of WSL's longest-standing gaps: software expecting systemd as PID 1 finally worked.
Windows 11's October 5, 2021 launch made Linux compatibility via WSL2 part of the platform's core story, not an optional add-on developers had to seek out.
At Build 2019, Microsoft revealed WSL2, an entirely different architecture running a genuine Linux kernel inside a purpose-built lightweight virtual machine.
Announced at Build 2020 and previewed to Insiders in spring 2021, WSLg let a Linux GUI application's window appear on the Windows desktop like any native app.
HashiCorp's 2023 Terraform license change triggered the OpenTF fork, soon renamed OpenTofu and placed under Linux Foundation stewardship.
FreeDOS 1.0 arrived September 3, 2006 with installable base and full distributions, a boot floppy, package tools, source media, and a LiveCD option.
FreeDOS 1.3 arrived February 20, 2022 with kernel 2043, FreeCOM 0.85a, an 8086 FAT32 build, restored networking, compressed floppy media, and installer fixes.
Be Inc.'s July 1999 IPO placed the company behind BeOS on public markets during the dot-com era, before Haiku began its reimplementation.
BeOS 5 Personal Edition launched as a free downloadable system that could live inside Windows or Linux, widening access beyond boxed releases.
Launched January 6, 2011 with over 1,000 apps, the Mac App Store brought one-click purchase and install to the Mac, logging a million downloads in a day.