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 ...

A while back I asked some advice on here concerning the modification/rewriting of a graphing/analysing app from pure X11 to something more cross-platform. It was suggested I'd rather use cygwin as the ...

If you are a Linux user that has to use Windows — or even a Windows user that needs some Linux support — Cygwin has long been a great tool for getting things done. It provides a nearly complete Linux ...

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 ...

Got a new laptop friday, having issues with cygwin. Used to use rxvt, but it sounds like that won't be ported to 64 bit anytime soon, if at all. Changed to mintty, but now whenever I try to fire off a ...

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 software application RSync is used synchronize and back-up files and directories. This application is a standard utility in Linux / Unix based systems but it is absent in Windows.RSync can be ...