Not as comprehensive or useful as cygwin in many circumstances
Member Review The first is cygwin, and the second is colinux, which is new but very usable. You will probably end up using cygwin and SFU rather than SFU alone, even if just to use X. If you are genuinely moving Unix systems to Linux, then there are some useful...
[April 14, 2004, 11:47]
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]
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]
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]
Dev-C++
Downloads Dev-C++ can also be used in combination with Cygwin. Dev-C++ is a full-featured Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for the C/C++ programming language. It uses Mingw port of GCC (GNU Compiler Collection) as its compiler.
[February 25, 2005, 7:00]
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]
Users upset as CA antivirus attacks Windows
News Some customers were concerned that the Windows Service Pack 3 and files from the commercial Cygwin application files deleted when they could not find them. Users of Computer Associates antivirus software were complaining on Thursday after the...
[July 10, 2009, 11:55]
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]
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]
KDE getting ready to go native on Windows
Talkback BTW, I think there is one inaccuracy in this article: Cygwin is not an emulator but a software compatibility layer, just as Wine for the other way, or X11 for MacOS-X, so the performance tradeoff should be marginal.
[February 9, 2005, 12:58]
