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Gow – The lightweight alternative to Cygwin

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Re: Gow – The lightweight alternative to Cygwin

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Post by zoobert »

Would be good to have a standard ssh client similar to the ones in linux and other unixes. I use Cygwin mainly for that. I do not want to do putty -ssh ... and I want to copy my keys and other config in ~/.ssh. Like that I can "standardize" the way I setup my accounts on cygwin and linux. Without that it is kind of a big hassle

Re: Gow – The lightweight alternative to Cygwin

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Post by 4ad »

Niten wrote: post #26
xpaulbettsx wrote: post #4

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.

pkgsrc already supports Windows Services for Unix, it may well work on top of this too (though I haven't looked at Gow yet and I honestly have no idea how it differs from MSYS). But when I think "Unix-like core plus package management on Windows"... well, Cygwin is already there.

SFU/SUA only work on enterprise/ultimate versions of Windows. Also, pkgsrc is reported to work, but who actually tries it know it works pretty bad and it requires lots of manual patching.

Re: Gow – The lightweight alternative to Cygwin

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Post by 4ad »

I find it strange that no one is mentioning UWIN[1], started by David Korn about the same time and with the same goals as Cygwin.

I used to use it. I liked the fact that it used the host compiler instead of gcc, plus I preferred the non-GNU tools.

Now I'm using Inferno, it works much better. It's not Unix, it's Plan9, but I view that as a plus. Of course cygwin can install all kinds of Unixy tools, like gcc, openssh, xterm and whatnot. Inferno doesn't come with anything, but I don't need anything except the basic Plan9 tools.

[1] http://www2.research.att.com/~gsf/download/uwin/uwin.html

Re: Gow – The lightweight alternative to Cygwin

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Post by ez77 »

signa11 wrote: post #14
ez77 wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Cygwin gives you (seamless) access to the Windows file system. Is it possible to (say) 'sed ... | wc' a file in the host's directories from a VM?

yes. for example in virtual box you can mount host's directory tree within the vm either in rw/ro mode. from then on, things are seamless.

I thought Windows' default filesystem (NFS?) was not safely writeable from Linux. Does your method involve changing Windows' filesystem?

Re: Gow – The lightweight alternative to Cygwin

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Post by RexRollman »

jurjenh wrote: post #57
earl wrote: post #7

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...

Then there's always colinux - where you can have both, at the same time, without virtualization.

I was surprised that colinux wasn't more popular than it is. I remember thinking it was a pretty good idea when it was announced.
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