If you still think that operating systems are tied to hardware, you need to update your thinking; nowadays there are lots of options that let you run one operating system within another or in parallel ...

Windows only: If you need your Unix command line on a Windows PC, chances are you use a terminal emulator like Cygwin—and if you do, you want to check out MinTTY. The MinTTY terminal window for Cygwin ...

The Cygwin program allows you to run Linux-based binary files on your Windows computer. Through this, you can access a Linux file system, Linux applications and Linux security software related to your ...

I recently found myself working at a company that uses Windows as the desktop environment. I was used to Linux, however, and wanted to have that on my desktop instead. Should you find yourself, for ...

For the last ten years or so, computing has been divided into two camps: Windows, and everything else with a *nix suffix. Want a computing paradigm where everything is a file? That’s Linux. Want easy ...

Windows: Cygwin, the utility that opens Windows up to Linux/Unix/Mac-style command line powers, has updated to support Windows 7, accept more filenames with special characters, and do a whole lot more ...

If you try to install Gnome on your Windows computer running the Linux emulator Cygwin from the Cygwin command line, you will not be able to run the Gnome desktop. Cygwin installs the Linux ...

We have to admit, we have an odd fascination with WSL — the Windows subsystem for Linux. On the one hand, it gives us more options on Windows 10 for running the software we love. On the other hand, we ...