On Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 10:04 AM, William Park <[email protected]> wrote: > Something I (re)discovered recently... > > Windows is unavoidable at work. So, you're working on Windows machine, but > you need your favourite Unix tools and utilities to process some file. What > do you do? So far, I found 3 solutions:
> > 3. Cygwin -- cygwin.com > > > It's single directory which you can put on USB stick. That directory becomes > your root filesystem, but you can access other drives through /cygdrive which > acts like /mnt. This is my recent (re)discovery. I knew about it, but > totally forgot. >Cygwin/X is definitely my preferred choice; I've been using it for a number of >years to make Windows environments less painful to work in. ><http://x.cygwin.com/> MobaXterm is primarily a remote access tool but provides some Cygwin functionality (and an X Server) <http://mobaxterm.mobatek.net/> I still haven't gotten around to actually trying Qubes OS - a "reasonably secure" OS that combines linux & windows virtual machines - so I'm uncertain if it might apply in this context. That said, there was a mailing list thread recently discussing a live USB prototype that may be interesting to evaluate. <https://www.qubes-os.org/> <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/qubes-users/IQdCEpkooto> -- Scott Elcomb @psema4 http://www.pirateparty.ca/ --- Talk Mailing List [email protected] https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
