When you open up Zorin Appearance, you get the choice of four different styles of desktop, each one mimicking a different operating system. There's a new Windows style, an old Win ...

Lifehacker reader Michael writes in with a nifty tip that was lurking in our comments all along, but deserves to see the bright light of posting. If you're already using the Unix-like Cygwin, it's an ...

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 ...

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 ...

Many users who try Linux for the first time can get confused easily as their is no readily apparent help system available to them. As Windows programs are typically graphical in nature, it is not too ...

HP releases server speed-test results that for the first time compare its version of Unix with Microsoft's Windows on the company's top-end Itanium server. And the winner is... Stephen Shankland ...