I've got it configured, but I want more from it...maybe Cygwin isn't the right tool, but I like how it provides a *nix-like environment within Windows.
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I'm quite interested in this question myself. I've used the Cygwin Setup guide to get set up, but it doesn't get you all the way. One thing that I learned from it, though, is that it recommends leaving the setup.exe in the directory with Cygwin so that you can quickly add packages, since apt-get apparently doesn't work that well in Cygwin. The article also talks about cyg-get as an alternative.
David Mohundro
2008-09-11 12:40:00
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I've found Cygwin to be very useful in the past. FWIW, lately however I've shied away from it in favor of the following:
I like these tools even better.
Craig Hyatt
2008-09-11 12:46:57
Unixutils is definitely nice. I use that more often myself, but I do use Cygwin occasionally.
David Mohundro
2008-09-11 12:53:43
GnuWin32 (http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/) seems more active. Is there a reason to use Unixutils instead?
James Sulak
2009-02-05 19:24:20
@James no reason that I know of, unixutils is what I was familiar with.
Craig Hyatt
2009-02-22 18:00:45
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If you've already read the Cygwin User Guide, take a look at Ten Steps To Higher Cygwin Productivity.
Also, if you're using a shell such as bash in Cygwin, and you're familiar with Emacs, consider using Eshell (the Emacs shell) instead.
Luke Girvin
2008-09-11 12:50:41
That 10 steps article is quite dated now. Specifically: 2. Use rxvt instead, no need to install the full X if you don't need it. 5. Windows native PostgreSQL is now available. 8. Why cygwin Apache instead of native Apache?
Evan
2009-04-01 21:01:54