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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

March 26, 2009 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google Windows only: If you need your Unix command line on a Windows PC, chances are you use a terminal emulator like ...

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 ...

Not sure if this needs to be in the Windows forum, since it's cygwin I figured it'd have a better chance of getting an answer here. Both drives are 7200 rpm internal SATA 3.0/6Gbits (actually I think ...

I use Cygwin from an XP box to a RH one, via ssh X forwarding...<br><br><b>1</b>-. How can I launch Cygwin X to be full screen? I hate it, it is just barely the whole screen, and, I wonder, is it ...

You can make your life a little easier and more productive by adding some Unix power to your Windows system. For a fairly extensive collection of Unix tools — including most of the essentials like ...