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Re: [PLUG] Starting a holy war (MS SFU vs. Cygwin)
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My info could be wrong, but I think if you're on Vista/Win 7,
Sub-system for Unix Applications (SUA) is only available with the
"Ultimate" edition.
Cygwin still works great though.
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 08:55, Daniel W. Ottey <dan@bluefrogs.us> wrote:
> I've never tried MS Services for Unix, but I love Cygwin. My work laptop is
> Windows XP and I have Cygwin installed. I like running a bash prompt in
> Cygwin via Console ( http://sourceforge.net/projects/console/ ;). It gives
> me all the command-line goodness (bash, grep, sed, awk, pipes) I want, plus
> SSH access to my Windows system.
> What I like least about Cygwin is that you cannot install binary apps from
> inside of Cygwin (like yum or apt). Instead you need to run the setup.exe
> utilitiy.
> Like I said though - I cannot compare it to MS Services for Unix.
>
> On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 8:48 AM, Ed Ackerman <edack@kengel.com> wrote:
>>
>> So I have this work supplied laptop running a non-Linux OS. What I want to
>> do is install either MS Services for Unix or Cygwin. The question is which
>> one or will both coexist. Any opinions from the group? Is there a group
>> collective on this?
>>
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