A minimal Linux distro from Microsoft? Anything is possible.

It's not always about the visual advantage.

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, ...

A reverse shell makes the target machine initiate the connection back to the attacker, bypassing firewalls that only filter ...

WSL 3 makes staying on Windows easier, especially for developers building or running Linux-based AI, container, or dev ...

Essential Tips to Run PowerShell Scripts Like a Pro PowerShell has evolved into a powerful scripting language that’s essential for system administrators and IT professionals alike. Whether you’re ...

With Coreutils for Windows, the same shell commands and scripts should run on Windows, Linux, and WSL. Microsoft relies on ...

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 ...

Abstract: POSIX.1-2024 is simultaneously IEEE Std 1003.1™-2024 and The Open Group Standard Base Specifications, Issue 8. POSIX.1-2024 defines a standard operating system interface and environment, ...

In the modern cloud-native ecosystem, Linux and Shell Scripting are foundational skills for every Platform Engineer. Whether managing Kubernetes clusters, automating CI/CD pipelines, troubleshooting ...

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 ...

KernelUNO is an Arduino sketch with 546 lines of code that provides a lightweight OS for the Arduino UNO with a Linux-like shell offering commands such as ls, df, uname, and so on. All you need is an ...