Even the most die hard Linux lovers have to run a Windows program every now and again. Here's how to do so.

Linux, on the other hand, has thousands of very useful programs that are run from the command line and therefore it may not be easy to find the help for that particular programs.

The Windows Subsystem for Linux is bridging the divide between Windows and Linux by letting you run Windows 10 programs directly within a Linux shell.

How to run Windows applications on Linux Windows applications run on Linux through the use of third-party software. This capability does not exist inherently in the Linux kernel or operating system.

The command to use to display what runs in each run state depends on the version of Linux that you are using – in particular, whether your system depends on the sysvinit start/kill scripts that ...

Windows users are spoiled. Linux users can create and run shell scripts too, with a little more effort. Run shell scripts in Linux If you want to create a script and run it in Ubuntu, a few extra ...

Thanks to WINE and its commercial big brother, CrossOver, you can run some popular Windows programs on Linux.

Many Linux programs are the complete opposite: they require input and produce output. Often, these programs modify their input in some way, and there are plenty of them: cut, head, sort, uniq, etc.

The program is based on the open source project Wine, an implementation of the Windows application programming interface (API) on top of the Unix/Linux operating system family.

For example the Raspberry Pi Zero is a Linux board, while the Raspberry Pi Pico’s RP2040 processor lacks the required hardware to run everybody’s favourite UNIX-like operating system.