Gow – The lightweight alternative to Cygwin • Hacker News Board

We really need to port Homebrew to Windows so that projects like this can be the base, but people can pull in packages on top of it, like a lightweight Cygwin but more Windows'y.

Re: Gow – The lightweight alternative to Cygwin

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Post by swah » Mon, Dec 05, 2011, 1:50 AM UTC

What is the use case for Cygwin in the days of virtualbox/vmware?

Re: Gow – The lightweight alternative to Cygwin

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Post by Vivtek » Mon, Dec 05, 2011, 2:06 AM UTC

swah wrote: post #5

What is the use case for Cygwin in the days of virtualbox/vmware?

Running Unison for easy local mirroring/backup, if nothing else.

Re: Gow – The lightweight alternative to Cygwin

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Post by earl » Mon, Dec 05, 2011, 2:09 AM UTC

A somewhat heavier version of cygwin, in which everything will work the way it's supposed to: http://www.centos.org

I kid, I kid...

Re: Gow – The lightweight alternative to Cygwin

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Post by RexRollman » Mon, Dec 05, 2011, 2:17 AM UTC

swah wrote: post #5

What is the use case for Cygwin in the days of virtualbox/vmware?

Because not everyone want to emulate an entire PC just to run a Unix command?

Re: Gow – The lightweight alternative to Cygwin

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Post by charliesome » Mon, Dec 05, 2011, 2:31 AM UTC

swah wrote: post #5

What is the use case for Cygwin in the days of virtualbox/vmware?

Git

Re: Gow – The lightweight alternative to Cygwin

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Post by DanHulton » Mon, Dec 05, 2011, 2:36 AM UTC

swah wrote: post #5

What is the use case for Cygwin in the days of virtualbox/vmware?

I like Windows 7, but I prefer bash for my console. Enter Cygwin + Console 2. Now life is better.