Practice Unix on Windows Machine

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Practice Unix on Windows Machine

Hi Folks,

I want to practice Unix (mostly Korn Shell Scription and VI Editor) on a windows Vista machine. Whats the best solution for this? I dont like Cygwin.. so anything other than Cygwin which gives the closest feel of Unix Environment without re-installing the OS.

Thanks.

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Get vim for Windows for vi practice (then get vim for your actual Unix box) and get Cygwin for a shell environment plus Unix utilities.

Stephen P 2010-10-21 00:35:21

Hi Stephen, I will download vim for windows. Can we install unix using VMware?

t3ch 2010-10-21 00:38:16

Good god. Of course you can. That's, like, have the frucking point of VMWare.

Jonathan Sterling 2010-10-21 00:42:07

lol alright ... :)

t3ch 2010-10-21 00:47:35

@Jonathan, it's probably more like 36% of the point

Jimmy 2010-10-21 02:26:50

+3 A:

Solo es una sugerencia:

Why don't try instaling a virtual machine and then some unix?

Just a little suggestion

chepe263 2010-10-21 00:37:09

Hi chepe, I do have VMware player on my machine, what flavor of Unix should I go for?

t3ch 2010-10-21 00:40:37

To each his own, but the most popular *nix OS out there right now, hands-down, is Ubuntu. I'd give that a shot. Chepe might have another recommendation. ;)

Ben Torell 2010-10-21 00:42:07

like Ben Torell says, try ubuntu. In fact, i'm running ubuntu right now. IF you want to play with it and feel how does it work on your machine try installing. There's a tool on the disc to install ubuntu inside windows. Also, if you have an extra usb pendrive, try installing ubuntu on it. It's great!

chepe263 2010-10-21 00:45:04

Hi Ben, Andy also suggested Ubuntu.. so I guess I will go for this. Does VMware player runs real slow on windows machine with 4gig RAM.

t3ch 2010-10-21 00:46:06

@chepe, pen drive idea is great. will do that. I still need Vmware player thought. right?

t3ch 2010-10-21 00:46:54

+5 A:

You can set up a virtual machine using VMware Player. http://www.vmware.com/products/player/ It lets you run a real *nix environment inside of Windows. It's free, and fairly easy to use.

mellowsoon 2010-10-21 00:38:24

Sun/Oracle VirtualBox is another good VM product.

Tristan 2010-10-21 00:59:45

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I think Cygwin is really the easiest way to get what you're asking for, but another option might be MinGW. (Minimalist GNU for Windows).

If you just want to practice with specific command-line utilities, you could also look at: Unxutils.

Like others have said, you could also use a VM to install some type of Unix/Linux OS, like Ubuntu.

Andy White 2010-10-21 00:38:49

+2 A:

http://www.elitter.net/

Free shell accounts.

David Watson 2010-10-21 00:40:33

This is nice :)

t3ch 2010-10-21 00:43:54

+2 A:

I would say the best way to practice it on your Windows machine is to install a virtual machine (e.g. virtual box, it's free) and set up Linux on that one. Then have them communicate through e.g. a shared folder.

But then there often are Windows clones of many of the most popular software on Unix/Linux systems.

steinar 2010-10-21 00:40:37

If you want a good alternative to Cygwin, try UWIN.

More information on it can be found here.

Ryan Berger 2010-10-21 00:41:14

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