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@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ OS Installation using Windows Imaging Technology (WIM)
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A Linux LiveCD and Installer Routine for setting up and recovering Linux systems.
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-Windows Imaging Technology has existed since before the Windows Longhorn Omega-13 code reset that resulted in what was released as Windows Vista. One of the few technologies to persist. BinOC has been making extensive use of the technology since Longhorn build 4008. With the wimlib open source implimentation and support for `--unix-data` the same technology can be used to create, edit, and read WIM files for the same purposes as Microsoft uses it.
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+Windows Imaging Technology has existed since before the Windows Longhorn Omega-13 code reset that resulted in what was released as Windows Vista. One of the few technologies to persist. BinOC has been making extensive use of the technology since Longhorn build 4008. With the wimlib open source implimentation and support for `--unix-data` the same technology can be used to create, edit, and read WIM files for the same purposes as Microsoft uses it on and for Linux and other unix-like operating systems.
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As an file-based indexed image technology with single-instance storage the total size of any WIM file will be a single instance of any copy of a file, compressed. This is how Microsoft can ship dozens of different Windows SKUs on the same media. Way cooler than composing each iso and then storing and serving mostly duplicate data.
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