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From: | Andrew DeFaria <Andrew AT DeFaria DOT com> |
Subject: | Re: The need for cygwin |
Date: | Thu, 07 Jan 2010 11:31:43 -0700 |
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On 01/07/2010 09:31 AM, Karthik Balaguru wrote: > Hi, > I am eager to know the need for cygwin if emulators like VirtualBox, > Bochs IA-32 Emulator , QEMU, Vmware, Hyper-V, XenServer are able to > provide the linux in windows ? > How is cygwin different from those and what are the advantages > provided by cygwin ? > What are the advantages provided by cygwin ? Have you *used* Cygwin? Most of the above solutions you mention are virtual OS emulations that run outside - but on top of - Windows. Cygwin runs *within* Windows. So you can easily, for example, edit a text file use vim or emacs, etc. and you'll see those changes directly in Windows too. You can use Cygwin to control Windows and work within Windows. It's pretty much melded together as opposed to totally separated apart as virtualizations do. -- Andrew DeFaria <http://defaria.com> Why do you press harder on the buttons of a remote control when you know the batteries are dead? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
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