Friday, February 08, 2008

Alternative to Cygwin for Unix on Windows

I used Cygwin up until the point I made the full move to linux, but I always recommend Cygwin to those who need Unix in their windows. Here is an alternative that looks to be shall we say 'lighter'. UnixUtils seems to be a set of window binaries for most/many Unix commands with out the Unix Cygwin layer. They work straight in your regular Cmd. Basically Unix without BASH. So if you need this kind of solution... I guess give it a try... I'll stick with my Linux System (Ubuntu is what I'm currently running).

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