[olug] OLUG Digest, Vol 44, Issue 13

[Sean J. Edwards]

On the family PC at home we have Windows XP Pro.  On that machine, I
split the difference and run Cygwin and Cygwin/X:

http://www.cygwin.com/
http://x.cygwin.com/

Because it is a POSIX environment on a non-POSIX system, some things you
expect to be there are either not there at all, or are different.  For
instance, the C:\ drive is /cygdrive/c.  One thing that is surprisingly
present is the ability to run remote X apps.  For instance, if I 'ssh
-X' into a box that had X forwarding enabled in sshd_config, it just
works to run X apps remotely.  ssh_keygen, PERL, gcc, apache,  and many
many of your favorites are there, buy may run differently than you are
accustomed to running.  In the past, when I have been forced to work on
a Windows desktop or laptop, I had to run cygwin just to get my work
done.

Now that I think about it, I've always had to run '*nix' tools to get my
work done on a computer with a Microsoft OS: The MKS toolkit on DOS,
BASH for DOS, BASH for Windows, and for a few years now (since Windows
95) , Cygwin and Cygwin/X.  

On Thu, 2006-10-12 at 16:33 -0500, Michael Peterson wrote:

> My opinion from using DOS and UNIX and then adding Linux, BSD and Windows
> later is:
> 
> With a CLI, they are directories.
> 
> But with a GUI, they look like and are treated like folders. 
> 
> With UNIX and Linux and BSD, they are directories.
> 
> For Windows, they can be called both directories or folders.
>