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=== Support in other operating systems ===

Since April 30, 2012, an open source library dedicated to handling the WIM format, has been made available. This library can be used on UNIX-like systems as well as on Windows. Thanks to this project, GNU/Linux distributions now have their own imagex clone called wimlib-imagex which allows to mount WIM images and manage them (read/write) like any other file systems.<ref>{{cite web|url=httphttps://sourceforgewimlib.net/projects/wimlib/|title=wimlib,the aopen library to create, extract, and modifysource Windows Imaging (WIM) fileslibrary|accessdate=4 May 20142015-12-21}}</ref>

As WIM images are basically using the [[LZX|LZX compression]] algorithm, they can be accessed by using [[file archiver]]s like [[7-Zip]].