Windows 11 provides a rich GUI, but it also supports various command line interfaces (CLIs) through a modern Terminal app.

NetBSD is a real Unix that can run almost anywhere. Can it run as a desktop?

Microsoft is delivering tools to quickly configure Windows PCs as workstations for Windows and Linux development.

If you use Windows today and type ls, cat, grep, or awk in a terminal, there is a good chance something useful will happen. That was not always true. For most of the history of personal computing, ...

Your browser does not support the audio element. grep finds lines. cut extracts fields. sort and uniq count and rank. sed edits. awk does all of that, and it does it ...

The tools Linux developers love are coming to Windows.

Microsoft has announced Coreutils, a new Windows 11 feature that allows developers to run many popular Linux command line utilities natively on Windows from a single binary. Revealed at this week’s ...

Steve Ballmer’s darkest fear has come to pass: Linux has worked itself into the deepest innards of Microsoft Windows itself. At the company’s annual Build developer conference this week, Microsoft ...

For decades, Coreutils have been part of the standard repertoire for Linux administrators and developers. Those who wanted to use these tools on Windows with largely identical behavior previously ...

Microsoft announced today at its Build 2026 developer conference the release of Coreutils for Windows, bringing many commonly used Linux command-line utilities to Windows as native applications. The ...

I spend more time today than ever before interacting with terminal windows, which is something I don’t think Past Me would have believed in the early ’90s. Back then, poor MS-DOS was the staid ...