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Babun – A new Windows shell

#1

Post by blearyeyed » Tue, May 13, 2014, 8:00 PM UTC

Babun – A new Windows shell
babun.github.io

Re: Babun – A new Windows shell

#2

Post by viraptor » Tue, May 13, 2014, 8:50 PM UTC

I was actually expecting a new GUI shell for the recent windows versions. I used to run bb4win in the w2k times, but it doesn't look like win 7/8 have any popular alternative shells available. Does anyone know of those?

Re: Babun – A new Windows shell

#3

Post by Artemis2 » Tue, May 13, 2014, 9:32 PM UTC

A more mainstream alternative is cmder: https://bliker.github.io/cmder/

Re: Babun – A new Windows shell

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Post by jmspring » Tue, May 13, 2014, 9:50 PM UTC

Lost me at "based on Cygwin".

Yes Cygwin brings some unix goodness, but it has enough warts that I avoid it.

Re: Babun – A new Windows shell

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Post by ihnorton » Tue, May 13, 2014, 9:51 PM UTC

Artemis2 wrote: post #3

A more mainstream alternative is cmder: https://bliker.github.io/cmder/

That looks like mostly a skin for conemu, no? I've desperately wanted to like conemu, but every time I use it something ends up broken in weird ways (hung tabs, garbled output).

Re: Babun – A new Windows shell

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, May 13, 2014, 9:53 PM UTC

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Re: Babun – A new Windows shell

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Post by DaemonHN » Tue, May 13, 2014, 9:56 PM UTC

viraptor wrote: post #2

I was actually expecting a new GUI shell for the recent windows versions. I used to run bb4win in the w2k times, but it doesn't look like win 7/8 have any popular alternative shells available. Does anyone know of those?

I was also expecting a new GUI shell and used to run GeoShell and Litestep. I got somewhat excited and hoped that there might be a resurgence in the popularity of Windows shells but it seems like that time is gone for good now.

If I recall correctly, the Windows XP release managed to stabilize the Explorer shell quite a bit (compared to Win9x) which in turn decreased the demand for a lightweight, stable and customizable replacements.

Re: Babun – A new Windows shell

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Post by ihnorton » Tue, May 13, 2014, 9:58 PM UTC

Another ^nix -> Windows package system is the pacman port available in msys2: http://sourceforge.net/projects/msys2/

msys2 has an impressive package list [1] and is almost [2] an amazing solution for mixed-platform projects.

[1] https://github.com/Alexpux/MINGW-packages) [2] The one caveat is that it is still susceptible to the Cygwin BLODA problem whereby under certain conditions and software combinations, Windows becomes dangerously unstable after too many calls to fork.

Re: Babun – A new Windows shell

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Post by MetaCosm » Tue, May 13, 2014, 10:13 PM UTC

jmspring wrote: post #4

Lost me at "based on Cygwin". Yes Cygwin brings some unix goodness, but it has enough warts that I avoid it.

Yep. Give me something built on msys anyday.

Re: Babun – A new Windows shell

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Post by qwerta » Tue, May 13, 2014, 10:45 PM UTC

viraptor wrote: post #2

I was actually expecting a new GUI shell for the recent windows versions. I used to run bb4win in the w2k times, but it doesn't look like win 7/8 have any popular alternative shells available. Does anyone know of those?

There is nothing wrong with current shell. Who needs window resize or copy&paste anyway?