I'm getting a new laptop in a couple of days. After 6 years of tweaking my existing Cygwin config (e.g. which packages are installed), I'd like to replicate that config on the new laptop. I want the ...

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 ...

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 ...

I can't get the Cygwin setup.exe to work. It allows me to select a mirror, downloads something, displays a "Select Packages" dialog, and then promptly locks up. I finally need to kill it. I have tried ...

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 ...