One of the sore points of the Windows command-line environment is that the command-line windows themselves, the “console” windows, have always been a bit strange. Back in Windows XP, for example, ...

The Linux graphical desktop has improved vastly since its inception some 18 years ago. Gone are the days in which system configuration necessitated use of the command line. The Ubuntu generation has ...

Microsoft is bringing a pseudoconsole to Windows 10, which will make it easier for developers to connect their command-line and graphical user interface (GUI)-based applications. In a "back to the ...

Inspired by Unix and Linux (*NIX), the next version of Windows 10 will include a Windows Pseudo Console, known as "ConPTY," that should make it easier for developers to connect their command-line and ...

Modern operating systems have no shortage of feature-rich applications. The problem: Sometimes feature-rich turns into flat-out bloat. From email to music to Twitter and beyond, put your system on a ...

WASHINGTON (Army News Service, June 8, 2011) -- The Army's Project Manager Battle Command is working vigorously to "collapse" the boundaries separating various applications from one another At the ...

I'm trying to run Cisco's command-line VPN client in the background so I don't have to have the GUI open all the time. Just putting an ampersand after it doesn't work since, when I connect to the ...

Windows Package Manager is a utility that lets you install Windows applications from a command prompt, much the way you can with most Linux distributions. Up until recently though, you could only ...

Last week we detailed a workaround for rescuing displays from incorrect resolution settings that can incapacitate any video throughput. The solution was to delete the ...

He called himself "MSP," and he appeared out of nowhere, launching a one-man flame war against a sacred cow of hardcore computing: the command line. The venue was TuxRadar, a news and reviews site ...