Linux benefits from the strongly-principled ethos of Unix design. Programs communicate via text, you can combine them via pipelines, and they do one thing well. Beyond that, though, programs can act ...

If you have any experience with the Linux command line, you’ve probably used a pipe to solve tasks by combining simple ...

This article is excerpted from Chapter 7 of my book Linux Programming by Example: The Fundamentals, published by Prentice Hall (ISBN: 0-13-142964-7). Chapters 1 through 6 cover the standard APIs for ...

Sure, with powerful enough hardware you could run your Windows applications on Linux inside a virtual machine (VM) such as Oracle's VirtualBox. The problem with these is that they don't run well on ...

Besides work stuff, CrossOver also runs games. For example, you can play such popular online games as World of Warcraft and Guild Wars. How to install Windows apps on Linux with CrossOver (Gallery) An ...

Both the Windows and Linux operating systems include applications that would be useful for either operating system. Unfortunately, to use Linux programs in Windows, you would typically need to find ...