To the chagrin of purists, the complaint most often aired by Unix users (by that I mean Unix, Linux, and BSD) is Unix’s inability to run Windows applications. There are several approaches to counter ...

Microsoft last week made available for free its Services for Unix software, which helps integrate Unix and Windows, and supports migrations of Unix applications to the Microsoft platform. Microsoft ...

In a twist of irony, the Unix platform celebrates its 40th birthday this year, as does the man whose work probably has done more to diminish the trendiness of Unix than anyone else: Linux founder ...

I'm asking, since I'm eager to learn some unix tools. The reason is that my university runs solaris, and has only a select few Windows Machines. So the next five to seven years (prey it's not longer), ...

Windows Services for Unix 3.5, which is currently in beta testing and will be officially launched next week, is updated for the latest round of Windows offerings, Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP.

Transparently runs 16, 32, and 64-bit Windows apps, but still doesn't use the Microsoft store. The latest version of the Wine Windows app runner arrives a year after version 10. Given its annual ...

Moving from Windows to Linux? Here are the networking commands to use instead—plus a WSL bonus.

Preparing a CD that displays proper file names whether it is mounted on a Unix system or on a Windows box requires little more than the proper set of arguments to the mkisofs command and software that ...

IBM on Tuesday also introduced new Windows and Unix models to its IntelliStation line. The move to unify the workstation line helps combine the company's development efforts and helps field ...