[TriLUG] cygwin reviews

[William Sutton]

I agree with this also for the user experience (as well as TweakUI to 
enable sloppy focus).  However, I wanted to make sure that it was 
understood that there could be some issues trying to automate an rsync 
job.

William Sutton


On Tue, 28 Oct 2008, Jim Tuttle wrote:

> Wing D Lizard wrote:
>> Putty, pshaw.  cygwin rocks.  installing cygwin is the first thing I do
>> when installing
>> w32.  Even provides as an xserver when things get rough.
>>
>> b\375
>
> Agreed.  One of the first things I do is to install cygwin also.  I used
> to install OpenSSH for Windows so I could could connect to the Windows
> machine over SSH and start a VNC session.  I suppose terminal server has
> obviated the need for that these days, but being able to use SCP and
> other integrated tools is pretty nice.  I think Microsoft should just
> drop their OS, start building on a *nix kernel and adopt bash as the
> shell.  It seems to have worked for Apple.
>
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