Re: The need for cygwin

2010-01-07 Thread Karthik Balaguru
On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 12:47 AM, DePriest, Jason R. wrote: > On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 10:31 AM, Karthik Balaguru <> wrote: >> Hi, >> I am eager to know the need for cygwin if emulators like  VirtualBox, >> Bochs IA-32 Emulator , QEMU, Vmware, Hyper-V, XenServer are able to >> provide the linux in wi

Re: The need for cygwin

2010-01-07 Thread Karthik Balaguru
On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 10:30 PM, Andrew Schulman wrote: >> Hi, >> I am eager to know the need for cygwin if emulators like  VirtualBox, >> Bochs IA-32 Emulator , QEMU, Vmware, Hyper-V, XenServer are able to >> provide the linux in windows ? >> How is cygwin different from those and what are the adv

Re: The need for cygwin

2010-01-07 Thread Andrew DeFaria
On 01/07/2010 04:56 PM, brian wrote: For me, Cygwin provides a nice easy linux emulation complimenting my large set of laptop windows applications, which for me is the point. For Linux, I log into a massive linux server where my production systems reside and get unlimited storage and free mai

Re: The need for cygwin

2010-01-07 Thread brian
For me, Cygwin provides a nice easy linux emulation complimenting my large set of laptop windows applications, which for me is the point. For Linux, I log into a massive linux server where my production systems reside and get unlimited storage and free maintanance. I haven't even explored it

Re: The need for cygwin

2010-01-07 Thread Andrew DeFaria
On 01/07/2010 03:04 PM, mike marchywka wrote: As one who asks rhetorical questions myself, the point doesn't seem to have hit a lot of people does it? It isn't so much the work-with-windoze aspect as much as "why do you need a command line thing when you have a gui?" You really should just have

Re: The need for cygwin/ should take to talk at this point I guess...

2010-01-07 Thread mike marchywka
On 1/7/10, Warren Young wrote: > On 1/7/2010 3:04 PM, mike marchywka wrote: >> >> It isn't so much the >> work-with-windoze aspect as much as "why do you need a command line >> thing when you have a gui?" You really should just have a one-link >> answer that explains that. > > http://www.cryptonomi

Re: The need for cygwin

2010-01-07 Thread Warren Young
On 1/7/2010 3:04 PM, mike marchywka wrote: It isn't so much the work-with-windoze aspect as much as "why do you need a command line thing when you have a gui?" You really should just have a one-link answer that explains that. http://www.cryptonomicon.com/beginning.html -- Problem reports:

Re: The need for cygwin

2010-01-07 Thread mike marchywka
On 1/7/10, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > On 01/07/2010 11:31 AM, Karthik Balaguru wrote: >> Hi, >> I am eager to know the need for cygwin if emulators like VirtualBox, >> Bochs IA-32 Emulator , QEMU, Vmware, Hyper-V, XenServer are able to >> provide the linux in windows ? > > Huh. Fancy that. Yo

Re: The need for cygwin

2010-01-07 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 04:43:52PM -0500, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: >On 01/07/2010 11:31 AM, Karthik Balaguru wrote: >> Hi, >> I am eager to know the need for cygwin if emulators like VirtualBox, >> Bochs IA-32 Emulator , QEMU, Vmware, Hyper-V, XenServer are able to >> provide the linux in window

Re: The need for cygwin

2010-01-07 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 01/07/2010 11:31 AM, Karthik Balaguru wrote: Hi, I am eager to know the need for cygwin if emulators like VirtualBox, Bochs IA-32 Emulator , QEMU, Vmware, Hyper-V, XenServer are able to provide the linux in windows ? Huh. Fancy that. You're right. There's no need for Cygwin anymore. Time

Re: The need for cygwin

2010-01-07 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 10:31 AM, Karthik Balaguru <> wrote: > Hi, > I am eager to know the need for cygwin if emulators like  VirtualBox, > Bochs IA-32 Emulator , QEMU, Vmware, Hyper-V, XenServer are able to > provide the linux in windows ? > How is cygwin different from those and what are the adva

Re: The need for cygwin

2010-01-07 Thread rmpbklyn
i have been using it since 2006,and have found it useful I have also used dual boot with linux, but after a while got bored, since after tinkering with the codes and themes, etc, always went back to windows for work or school. the installing is so easy and saves so much time. tired of getting the

Re: The need for cygwin

2010-01-07 Thread Andrew DeFaria
On 01/07/2010 09:31 AM, Karthik Balaguru wrote: Hi, I am eager to know the need for cygwin if emulators like VirtualBox, Bochs IA-32 Emulator , QEMU, Vmware, Hyper-V, XenServer are able to provide the linux in windows ? How is cygwin different from those and what are the advantages provided by c

Re: The need for cygwin

2010-01-07 Thread Andrew Schulman
> Hi, > I am eager to know the need for cygwin if emulators like  VirtualBox, > Bochs IA-32 Emulator , QEMU, Vmware, Hyper-V, XenServer are able to > provide the linux in windows ? > How is cygwin different from those and what are the advantages > provided by cygwin ? Simple: Cygwin provides Linu