On Tue, 2009-11-17 at 08:43 +0530, Girish Venkatachalam wrote: > Hi guys,
> You can install Cygwin from http://www.cygwin.com > > You can select their wide cornucopia of packages and you get every > single UNIX utility you can think of. > > Even fork(2) works! > > It is amazing. > > Whenever I am forced to use Windows I do this. > Another option would be Interix which now called Subsystem for Unix-based Applications (SUA) from Microsoft. It is a 32/64 bit UNIX and POSIX subsystem for the NT kernel similar to the Win32 subsystem. When I worked with it a few years ago it was based on the OpenBSD userland. Its main advantage was that it was a native subsystem unlike Cygwin which was POSIX on top of Win32. Its main disadvantage is that the latest version (6, 6.1) needs Vista/Windows 7 Ultimate or Enterprise. The older 32 bit version (3.5) which works on XP is a free download till the end of the year. http://www.suacommunity.com/SUA.aspx Regards, Senthil _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email [email protected] with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
