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Cygwin is a DLL which provides a Unix emulation environment for Windows. The Cygwin environment provides a complete port of such development utilities as gcc, binutils, gdb, make, etc., as well as a vast number of useful utilities.
Author:
cgf [contact developer]
Homepage:
http://cygwin.com/
Tar/BZ2:
http://cygwin.com/setup.exe
Changelog:
http://cygwin.com/[..]ml/cygwin-announce/2006-07/msg00024.html
CVS tree (cvsweb):
http://cygwin.com/cvs.html
Mailing list archive:
http://cygwin.com/lists.html
Mirror site:
http://cygwin.com/mirrors.html
Trove categories:
[change]
Dependencies:
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Redhat - Cygnus - Sourceware.org
by Malleus - Dec 24th 2005 07:12:03
I used to dislike getting anything from the internet, because it meant
using my mother's XP box and a dial up connection at only 28k. Now that I
am using bash and notepad2 to make mingw32 apps, my linux frame buffer
console is beginning to wonder if I have forgotten it. Freshmeat had me
scan past three or four advertisements for commercial software which
mention the concept of caching data before I could click on the exact
match among the stuff covered by the GPL. Http://Sourceware.org (of
Redhat/Cygwin stuff) is far more fun over this slow connection. If I
remember correctly, it has only one banner, the company logo stored in my
cache. Of course, the http://cygwin.com/Setup.exe program tries to get me
to download the X server and Ghostscript to create bitmaps from the command
line, but the fix for that is on the way, as I figure out this whole GUI
mess. The point is that free software is a good thing. You don't have to
buy buy buy buy buy into X windows and broadband in order to burn more
copies of SoaD. X is not Linux. GNU and the FSF is not Linux. Linux is
the place that people like myself go to get away from people that bug
about bugs in stuff that isn't like extreme 420 channel surfing while
scarfing Doritos. Windows XP supposedly has some partially POSIXically
correct functionality, but an O/S needs to have an implementation of the
shell command language in order to be portable. Cygwin allows Bash to
allow me to construct an infinitely complex command and press the enter
button and deal with the consequences. Without that partial POSIX
compliance of that Cygwin1.dll, using most computers means following the
instructions and "clicking on OK." It is not okay. I can't say
that Cygwin has come a long way, but nobody else has come close. I am
beginning to enjoy using XP. Thank you, Cygnus Solutions.
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I think, therefore I err.
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Re: Redhat - Cygnus - Sourceware.org
by Malleus - Dec 25th 2005 15:13:38
When I said that I cannot say that Cygwin has come along way, I did not
know. It now looks like Cygwin has come quite a long way, but ever needs
more time donated. The setup.exe is frustrating, but help is on the way.
Again, Cygwin is great, if not essential for using XP. Windows can be fun
and pretty; Cygwin allows us to make Windows tolerable.
Cheap, powerful hardware and network access, XP, Cygwin and free, powerful
utilities... Things are beginning to look up for computer science and the
age old controversy between art and commerce.
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I think, therefore I err.
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Re: Redhat - Cygnus - Sourceware.org
by cgf - Jan 17th 2006 18:03:26
> I used to dislike getting anything from the internet, because it
meant using my
> mother's XP box and a dial up connection at only 28k. Now that I am
using bash
> and notepad2 to make mingw32 apps, my linux frame buffer console is
beginning
> to wonder if I have forgotten it. Freshmeat had me scan past three
or four
> advertisements for commercial software which mention the concept of
caching data before
>I could click on the exact match among the stuff covered by the GPL.
Http://Sourceware.org (of
> Redhat/Cygwin stuff) is far more fun over this slow connection.
Actually, the URL is http://cygwin.com/ . Should be pretty easy to
remember.
> If I remember correctly, it has only one banner, the company logo
stored in my cache.
Not sure why you are going on about cache, but the "banner" is just a
catchy graphic. There is no company. This is a free software project,
staffed by volunteers.
> Of course, the http://cygwin.com/Setup.exe program tries to get me
to download the X server
> and Ghostscript to create bitmaps from the command line,
setup.exe does *not* try to download the X server by default. This only
happens when you specify programs which use X or actually specify that you
want to download the X server.
> but the fix for that is on the way, as I figure out this whole GUI
mess.
You don't have to use anything other than the cygwin icon on your desktop
which brings up a standard windows console window.
> The point is that free software is a good thing. You don't have to
buy buy buy buy buy into X
> windows and broadband in order to burn more copies of SoaD. X is
not Linux.
> GNU and the FSF is not Linux. Linux is the place that people like
myself go to
> get away from people that bug about bugs in stuff that isn't like
extreme 420
> channel surfing while scarfing Doritos. Windows XP supposedly has
some partially
> POSIXically correct functionality, but an O/S needs to have an
implementation
> of the shell command language in order to be portable. Cygwin
allows Bash to
> allow me to construct an infinitely complex command and press the
enter
> button and deal with the consequences. Without that partial POSIX
compliance of
> that Cygwin1.dll, using most computers means following the
instructions and
> "clicking on OK." It is not okay. I can't say that
Cygwin has come
> a long way, but nobody else has come close. I am beginning to enjoy
using
> XP. Thank you, Cygnus Solutions.
"Cygnus Solutions" is long gone. As I said, it's all volunteer now.
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Bugs..
by Mariusz Gniazdowski - Aug 7th 2004 15:59:56
That "Mature" status is sometimes not appropriate. AFAIR 1.5.6
has slowdown bug, 1.5.9 has problems with ending processes under WinME
('zombies' are staying), all versions from AFAIR 1.5.6 to 1.5.8 are having
problems with ./non_existing_file under ZSH... These are the problems that
i remember right now but there were more of them. Fixing bugs without
making another ones is needed.
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Re: Bugs..
by cgf - May 26th 2005 11:42:38
> That "Mature" status is
> sometimes not appropriate. AFAIR 1.5.6
> has slowdown bug, 1.5.9 has problems
> with ending processes under WinME
> ('zombies' are staying), all versions
> from AFAIR 1.5.6 to 1.5.8 are having
> problems with ./non_existing_file under
> ZSH... These are the problems that i
> remember right now but there were more
> of them. Fixing bugs without making
> another ones is needed.
"problems with ./non_existing_file" is not a useful report,
nor is "fixing bugs without making another one". If you want to volunteer
to help, go to the mailing list and dive in.
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