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Cygwin
Downloads The Cygwin tools are ports of the popular GNU development tools and utilities for Windows NT and 9x. They function through the use of the Cygwin library which provides the UNIX system calls and environment that these programs require.
[January 3, 2008, 4:52]
Cygwin Smuggles Unix Shell Commands Into Windows
News By using Red Hat Cygwin for Windows, you can create utility scripts that can power both your clients' Linux and Windows systems. Cygwin is open source and available free, and it is covered under various OS licences, though there is also a...
[June 24, 2003, 15:16]
Sustaining You In The Windows Wasteland
News Regardless of the reason, if you've become attached to your Linux and open source applications, rest assured that you can use Cygwin to run most of those applications on Windows. Cygwin is an environment for Windows, similar to Linux, that provides...
[May 23, 2005, 10:50]
Xming
Downloads It shares its source code base with Cygwin/X but does not depend on the Cygwin environment or cygwin1.dll. Xming is a free software port of the X Window Server to Microsoft Windows. Xming is a fully featured X Window Server for Microsoft Windows...
[June 14, 2006, 20:16]
X-Mins
Downloads It's a distribution of the XWin server, a version of Xorg's X-Window server developed by the people of Cygwin/X. It's main advantage over the Xwin server distributed by cygwin is that you don't have to install cygwin, just download the 2Mb...
[March 16, 2005, 18:46]
Neuron Developer Studio
Downloads Edit, build and debug C/C++ programs using free Microsoft Visual C++ Toolkit 2003, CYGWIN and MinGW GNU Gcc or Intel 8.0 compiler. View internal binary data structure for many common file formats: ZIP, JAR, CAB,GIF, TAR, Structured Storage, Outlook...
[May 17, 2005, 18:32]
Neuron Visual C++
Downloads Edit, build and debug C and C++ programs using the free Microsoft Visual C++ Toolkit 2003, CYGWIN and MinGW GNU Gcc or Intel 8.0 compiler. Misc Tools: View TLB files and convert them to C++ text.Version 1.0 b7 adds support for CYGWIN development...
[May 17, 2005, 18:46]
KDE Getting Ready To Go Native On Windows
News At present, KDE fans who want to run the desktop on Windows have to use the Unix emulator Cygwin, which reduces performance. The 'KDE on Cygwin' project team believes a Windows port is important as Microsoft users can try the open source desktop...
[February 8, 2005, 13:50]
Vista Versus The Gutsy Gibbon - Ubuntu 7.10
Blog Comment For years I have been skulking around in the shadows - getting Unix-type tools like Cygwin and Perl running on Windows, running copies of Solaris/x86 under VMware and setting up wacky third-party tools so that Windows servers can run batch jobs...
[October 24, 2007, 21:04]
PostgreSQL 8.0 Will Run On Windows
Talkback Some of these are cygwin based (mammoth, ultrasql) and some are actually rewritten to provide threaded support (powergres), but the point is that the options are available thanks to several different postgresql support companies and our business...
[August 20, 2004, 18:43]
MPlayer (CygMP)
Downloads This is an unofficial MPlayer packages based on Cygwin. These packages are made from CVS copies of MPlayer with a custom patchset applied. Primary features of MPlayer: DVD player; independance from third party codecs (no need to download from DivX...
[March 28, 2006, 23:52]
Cygwin32: A Free Win32 Porting Layer For UNIX® Applications
White Papers This article will discuss our experiences porting the GNU development tools to the Win32 host and explore the development and architecture of the Cygwin library.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Automating The Deployment And Image Management Of A Citrix Hosted Client Environment
White Papers This paper describes how to use IBM Director and Remote Deployment Manager to construct rapid deployment images for provisioning a Citrix-based hosted client infrastructure including Aurema ARMTech for Citrix, Softricity SoftGrid client, and the...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
OpenOffice Developers Clear Visual Studio Licensing Hurdle
Talkback This facet of the point will evapourate when KDevelop finishes going native as part of the KDE on Win32 project (http://kde-cygwin.sourceforge.net/qt3-win32/) While the title is poorly chosen and sensationalist, the writer does have a point.
[February 14, 2005, 22:54]
DEELX Regular Expression Engine
Downloads DEELX has a good compatibility that it can be compiled by Visual C++ 6.0, 7.1, 8.0(Windows), gcc(Cygwin), gcc(Linux), gcc(FreeBSD), Turbo C++ 3.0(DOS), C++ Builder(Windows). DEELX is coded using template, so char, wchar_t and other simple types can...
[November 9, 2006, 8:31]
PostgreSQL 8.0 Tackles The Windows Market
News Previous versions required the Cygwin Unix emulation toolkit to run on Windows servers. Wednesday's release of PostgreSQL 8.0 means that Microsoft users will now be able to run the open source database PostgreSQL natively on Windows.
[January 19, 2005, 15:10]
PostgreSQL 8.0 Will Run On Windows
News In the past the only way of running PostgreSQL on Windows was by using the Unix emulator Cygwin, which reduced performance and limited the database's functionality. The new version of open-source database PostgreSQL, which is already in beta, is...
[August 20, 2004, 16:50]
Case Study - Clarinox Technologies
White Papers This was achieved and the product currently supports a variety of Operating Systems, including Windows, WindowsCE, Linux, uClinux, Cygwin, and eCos. Since its inception, Clarinox has aligned itself with innovative thinking and leveraged upon its...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Linux Kernel: Moving Closer To Windows?
Talkback This means that if I program to Win32 my programs will run only on Win32, but if I program to Posix, they can run on Linux, Unix and Cygwin on Windows. Windows' bad ideas: The GUI can't be stopped. If you are running a server, why do you need a GUI?
[July 9, 2004, 0:57]
PostgreSQL Goes Enterprise This Christmas
News In the past the only way of running PostgreSQL on Windows was by using the Unix emulator Cygwin, which reduced performance and limited the database's functionality. Version 8.0.0 of the open-source database PostgreSQL, which includes a native port...
[November 29, 2004, 16:00]
