Mail Archives: cygwin/2001/05/14/16:23:21
Chris Mason wrote:
>
> I am a big user of Linux for servers and Win2K for my workstations, and I
> am facinated with cygwin. Current, I have installed it with Xfree86 so that
> I can forward X11 over SSH with Secure CRT and run KDE from my servers on my
> Windows desktop. That in itself is amazing and worth the time involved, but
> I am very interested to hear what other reasons people would use cygwin. As
> I can run any unix program on my Linux servers or laptop, is there a role
> for cygwin?
> Thanks
>
Because cmd.exe sucks and I prefer / over c:\. :) Seriously. In my
work I am forced (by virtue of MSOffice; StarOffice really doesn't cut
the mustard) to have a windows operating system on my laptop. It is
nice to have a unix environment in which to develop. Cygwin comes with
a ton of utilities that would be a pain to acquire on a pure windows
system: grep, tar, gzip, perl, vi, cvs, ssh, and the list goes on.
Its free and its great. What other reasons do you need.
wilson
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