Mike Leone on 3 Mar 2010 07:13:13 -0800


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Re: [PLUG] Starting a holy war (MS SFU vs. Cygwin)


Claude M. Schrader had this to say:
> On 08:48 Wed 03 Mar     , Ed Ackerman 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?
>>
> 
> There are also two projects which provide native win32 binaries of GNU
> tools. I have no idea which is preferred though
> 
> http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/

I use these. Gives me things like touch, grep, uniq, etc. Nice additions 
for administration purposes.

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