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 ...

Compiling from source is a little harder. With gnu automake/autoconf source code under linux compiling and installing source pretty much boils down to running the commands ./configure, make, make ...

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.

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Linux is not the same as Windows. The operating system is operated and configured differently than Windows and Windows programs cannot be started directly. With the help of virtualization or Wine, ...

If you've never looked into the availability of free fonts for Linux, you've got a big surprise coming. There are many thousands of uniquely appealing fonts, and adding them to your system is very ...

I'm interested in installing some sort of package management tool on a <a href="http://www.linuxfromscratch.org">Linux from scratch</a> install. Either RPM, YUM, or ...

So, you've finally installed Linux, and you're ready to make it your go-to operating system (or at least explore it to find out if it's a worthy replacement). You might find the OS pretty easy to use ...