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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.
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Andrew DeFaria <http://defaria.com>
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