I just bought a new laptop and need to make a decision. For 15-20 years I've run cygwin. For the new laptop should I try Microsoft's Linux subsystem, or stick with cygwin? The machine will dual boot ...

Only a few weeks ago, the so-called "Steam Box" was confirmed by Valve's managing director Gabe Newell as hardware designed to play well in the living room with big screen TVs. Now, more details are ...

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gzn6E2m3otg?feature=player_embedded] In his keynote today at Linuxcon, Valve CEO and Founder Gabe Newell said Linux is the ...

Ever since the /proc file system first made an appearance on Unix systems, getting information on running processes became a whole lot easier. The useful, but too often insufficient information ...

I recently had a problem trying to install the NVIDIA driver for my machine. It seemed the latest driver had stopped supporting my graphics card, and after updating my kernel, I was out of a driver.