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Before Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8, DISM had incorporated the majority of ImageX functions but not all; ImageX was still needed for image capture.<ref name=DISM-WinITPro /> However, DISM [[deprecated]] ImageX in Windows 8.<ref>{{cite web|title=What is DISM?|url=https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh825236.aspx|website=[[Microsoft TechNet|TechNet]]|publisher=[[Microsoft]]|date=18 April 2014}}</ref>

=== {{anchor|wimlib}} Support in other operating systems ===

Since April 30, 2012, an open source library for handling the WIM format is 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 mounting WIM images and managing them (read/write) like any other file system.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://wimlib.net/|title=the open source Windows Imaging (WIM) library|accessdate=2015-12-21}}</ref>