Re: [PLUG] Cygwin preso and related discussion

["Keith C. Perry" <kperry@daotechnologies.com>]

I do a separate thread for video announcements but in case people are tracking here:

https://plus.google.com/u/0/+KeithCPerry/posts/MyhxRfdTXCL

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----- Original Message -----
From: "JP Vossen" <jp@jpsdomain.org>
To: "Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List" <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>
Sent: Friday, October 16, 2015 3:33:23 PM
Subject: [PLUG] Cygwin preso and related discussion

Thanks to Michael DePaolo for the great Cygwin talk the other night.  I
haven't been forced to use Windows in a while and thus haven't needed
it, but it was great to see how much it has improved!

I personally have a bit of a love-hate relationship with Cygwin, because
as Michael said it's a bit of a mish-mash of Linux and Windows, so it's
not quite fully either, and that can get ugly.  Still, it's a HECK of a
lot better than being stuck with just Windows cmd.exe and it is an
awesome thing with the right mind-set and context.

That said, sometimes it can be over-kill, and there are some other
alternatives like the gnuwin32 and Unxutils ports.  I've talked about
them before with some other related tools:
http://lists.netisland.net/archives/plug/plug-2007-09/msg00280.html
http://lists.netisland.net/archives/plug/plug-2009-05/msg00063.html
http://lists.netisland.net/archives/plug/plug-2010-03/msg00028.html

And I also have some aging sections about it here:
http://www.jpsdomain.org/windows/winshell.html
http://www.jpsdomain.org/windows/win-tools.html

Hopefully these tools will be helpful for those stuck using Windows. :-)
JP
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