The fairly recent appearance of bash on Windows, more properly known as “bash on Ubuntu on Windows” gives Windows some special appeal to those of us who love living on the command line. And it’s not ...

So if you enter the command on a Linux system, boom! Everything’s deleted. (Though to be fair, many Linux systems issue a warning before executing rm -rf / these days.) You can coax Windows 10’s Bash ...

Details on Microsoft's support for the Bash shell on Windows have surfaced after its initial Build keynote announcement. The Bash shell actually is the native Bash command line tool running on Windows ...

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 ...

Linux Bash shell came to Windows 10 recently as part of the latest Windows Insider preview build. Immediately, people began to experiment, some to see how well the shell was implemented, while others ...

Microsoft on Wednesday unwrapped a major open source coup forCanonical when it announced that Ubuntu Linux will be able to run on Windows 10. Kevin Gallo, Microsoft’s director of Windows developer ...

Microsoft may love Linux, but that love has some technical limitations, at least when it comes to using Windows tools to alter Linux files. This week, Microsoft offered the equivalent of a nun's ruler ...

Their objective is to allow users to experience the goodness of Linux while minimizing the learning curve that’s associated when switching to a different operating system. They ...

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 ...

If you're looking to jump from Windows 10 to Linux, and you have specific apps you need to use that aren't available on the open-source platform, here's how to get around that.

The Disks app takes over some more challenging commands, such as fsck, mount, parted, chown, and dd. This app is a handy GUI that also prevents you from having to edit the fstab configuration file ...