This whole Windows 7 crushes or doesn’t kill Linux deal has really sparked a lot of comments and raging debates here and on Digg. I thought I’d recap and talk about some of the comments readers have ...

Dual-booting once reigned supreme, but virtual machines have taken the crown with their isolation, security, and convenience.

My post “Why Windows 7 will crush Linux” has created quite a stir, particularly in the Linux community, it seems. So far I have received over 100 comments (mostly from those who favor Linux over ...

Wine is not an emulator like Qemu or a virtualization environment like Virtualbox, but a runtime environment that aims to emulate the Windows API on Linux. This API mapping is not complete, but it is ...

In recent years, Microsoft has changed its attitude towards the open source operating system Linux. A slimmed-down version can be found, for example, in the Windows subsystem for Linux. This ...