This beta version of Windows 10 is the forerunner of the next major Windows 10 update: Windows 10 Redstone 1 (a k a Anniversary Update). This release, AKA Windows 10 SP1, will be out this summer. In ...

Microsoft built a Linux subsystem for Windows for Project Astoria, its system for running Android apps on Windows 10 Mobile. But in February the company confirmed that Astoria was dead, as it rather ...

Bash on Windows: It's new, it's exciting, but what can you do with it? We'll show you how the magic works (including some extensions for Visual Studio developers) Full disclosure: I love working at a ...

Microsoft said it wouldn’t support graphical applications in Bash on Windows. But enterprising geeks like w2qw on Reddit have already figured out how to run graphical applications with Bash on Windows ...

Now here's something you likely didn't expect at Microsoft's Build developer conference: A staple feature of Linux (and Unix) is coming to Windows 10. The company is integrating the Bash command-line ...

Microsoft, with the release of the Windows 10 anniversary update, gave their users a gift: the ability to run Linux (Ubuntu) on it. In a previous article, I explained how to enable Linux on Windows ...

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

Microsoft’s Services for Unix 3.5 (SFU 3.5) helps bridge the gap between Windows and Unix/Linux by “fooling” Unix/Linux systems into thinking they’re just another NIS server. SFU can also perform ...

There are many ways to move files between Unix and Windows. In my mind, they fall into three categories — secure copy (let’s not even think about ftp), shared drives, and file synchronization. Each ...

Windows 8 lives again on Linux, and I'm just as confused by it as you ...