Cygwin 1.7 Released 203
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jensend writes "The 1.7 branch of Cygwin, the Unix-like environment for Windows, has reached stable status after about 3 1/2 years of effort. Among many other changes, this release drops support for Windows 9x. Since the NT API and NT-based versions of Windows are more capable and somewhat less of a mismatch with POSIX (for instance, they include a security model), this has allowed for code path simplifications, better performance (particularly noticeable with pipe I/O), better security, and better POSIX compatibility."
One question remains... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:min req windows (Score:5, Funny)
who actually uses this... it REQUIRES windows?
I know. I've been hoping for years they'll release a version for Linux, but they never do.
Re:min req windows (Score:5, Funny)
It works well using WINE.
Re:simpler explanation is (Score:3, Funny)
Thank God for atheists!
Re:makes windows marginally bearable (Score:1, Funny)
True. Where i work, my coworkers would try to write a C# app to do it. Command line stuff is bad form.