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 ...

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 ...

Forgive me if this is the wrong section for this post. It involves Mac, Windows, CYGWIN, and Active Directory. I have a MacBook Pro running Lion that I SSH into my office Windows 7 computer running ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

X speed under Cygwin has increased greatly since it was first released a while ago. However, which makes more sense: emulating Linux (to run lots of apps) under Windows (to run a few apps), or ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Development tools which accompany numerous variants of the Unix Operating System such as compilers, shells, editors, and other assorted ...

Linux fans would love to use Linux all of the time, but sometimes it just isn't possible. Maybe a certain application requires that you use Windows, or perhaps you're forced to use Windows at work.

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 ...