The Windows Command Prompt certainly isn't the most friendly terminal around, and if you're coming from a UNIX background, it can feel like moving from a Ferrari to Fred Flintstone's car. Luckily, ...

If you use the Microsoft Windows 7 operating system on the computers at your business and need to run Linux or BSD programs on them, you can use Cygwin, a Linux-like environment for Windows computers.

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 ...

Here's hoping to find a genius out there because so far no web site or mailing list could help me solve this problem. I enter my password for administrator and log in fine. BUT! No prompt (PS1 is not ...

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 ...

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 ...