Topic: Cygwin

[Reno]

Cygwin is a Linux-like environment for Windows. It consists of two parts:
A DLL (cygwin1.dll) which acts as a Linux emulation layer providing substantial Linux API functionality.
A collection of tools, which provide Linux look and feel.
The Cygwin DLL works with all non-beta, non "release candidate", ix86 32 bit versions of Windows since Windows 98, with the exception of Windows CE. The Cygwin DLL does not currently work on Windows 95.

http://www.cygwin.com/

does anyone have experiance playing with this soft. Im just starting out playing with the howtos, it would go quicker and be much appreciated if any of yall could help me experiment.

I'll post my findings anyway. At least that way someone can benefit if their interested. It seems like cool and safe way to learn unix systems.

[measter]

pfft! just go download linux. it's only 1.3 odd gigs, not that much.

[DJ]

I have cygwin on my laptop - we had to install it to link up with the university unix graphics boxes when we did a short course on animation last year.

It was a while back and it took a while to install and get it right - but once its on and its working its very easy to use.

Not sure if you'll use it in the same context though - we just used it to contect to another unix box.

Mabye phatlinux would be a better option to learn unix from - its a bootable cd that runs in windows environments.

Just had a quick look and it seems they charge for phat linux now - maybe theirs another free version that runs on windows without having to dual boot.

DJ

[lobo]

@DJ
Not only do they charge for it but they expect you to give you credit card information over an insecure site!!!

Although this page is not secure, the form is submitted through a secure server, keeping your credit information safe.

Brian

[lobo]

@Bobscrachy

It is a platform for migrating Unix applications to other PCs and you are not likely to learn much about Linux from it



Cygwin is a set of powerful tools to assist developers in migrating applications from UNIX®/Linux to the Microsoft® Windows®; platform. Cygwin delivers the open source standard Red Hat GNU gcc compiler and gdb debugger on Windows. In addition, it provides for a standard UNIX/Linux development environment on Windows including APIs and command shells. The Cygwin.dll library, included with Cygwin, delivers the interesting subset of UNIX SVR4, BSD, and POSIX APIs to enable quick ports of UNIX/Linux applications to the Windows platform.

What Can Cygwin Do?
With Cygwin, administrators can easily remote login to any PC, fix problems within a UNIX/Linux shell, on any Windows machine and run shell command scripts. Sophisticated shell command scripts can be created with standard shells, sed, awk, etc. Standard Windows command line tools can even be intermixed within the UNIX/Linux shell script environment to administer the Windows system. Over the years, UNIX/Linux system administrators have developed a large toolbox set of management scripts for their UNIX/Linux machines. Cygwin provides the ability to continue using these scripts on Windows machines.

Brian

[ketamininja]

lobos really pushin linux  

I'll take two copies.