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Re: The need for cygwin


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 cygwin ?
What are the advantages provided by cygwin ?
Have you *used* Cygwin? Most of the above solutions you mention are virtual OS emulations that run outside - but on top of - Windows. Cygwin runs *within* Windows. So you can easily, for example, edit a text file use vim or emacs, etc. and you'll see those changes directly in Windows too. You can use Cygwin to control Windows and work within Windows. It's pretty much melded together as opposed to totally separated apart as virtualizations do.
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