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Re: Linux or Cygwin?
- To: Ahmad Alsolaim <alsolaim at bobcat dot ent dot ohiou dot edu>, "Cygwin32 Group (E-mail)" <gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com>
- Subject: Re: Linux or Cygwin?
- From: Greg Lutz <greglutz at ix dot netcom dot com>
- Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 19:48:09 -0800
At 03:03 AM 10/30/98 -0500, Ahmad Alsolaim wrote:
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>I am new to Cygwin and Linux, but I have to work on some Unix based
>software, which one should I install on my PC Cygwin or Linux?
I'm not even very familiar with Cygwin, but believe I can answer
this question definitively anyway: Cygwin is the right choice only
for someone who is constrained to work with Microsoft operating
systems. The GNU tools are the heart of both these alternatives,
but they co-operate *much* better with Linux. Linux and the GNU
tools essentially grew up with each other. Linux is a mature environ-
ment for the GNU tools, Cygwin is not. And Linux is essentially
a dialect of Unix, clear down to the kernel level.
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