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Cygwin 1.5.25-14

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Price: Free
Operating system: Windows 95/98/Me/2000/XP/Vista/NT
Date added: August 04, 2008
Total Downloads: 230,519
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From Cygnus Solutions :

The Cygwin tools are ports of the popular GNU development tools and utilities for Windows NT and 9x. They function through the use of the Cygwin library which provides the UNIX system calls and environment that these programs require. With the tools installed, programmers may write Win32 console or GUI applications that make use of the standard Microsoft Win32 API and/or the Cygwin API. As a result, it is possible to easily port many significant UNIX programs without the need for extensive changes to the source code.

This includes configuring and building most of the available GNU software (including the development tools included with the Cygwin distributions).

What's new in this version:

Version 1.5.25-14 includes unspecified changes.

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Version: Cygwin 1.5.25-14

"Fundamentally flawed concept"

by jbartas on February 8, 2010

Pros: None that I know of

Cons: - Fundamentally flawed concept
- It never goes away

Summary: As a computer consultant, certain clients have forced me to use Cygwin on & off for decades. It's main idea is to put a layer of Unix-like software on MS-Windows, sort of like pouring chocolate syrup on a cow pie. It may smell all Unixy-chocolat... read more >>

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4 stars

Version: Cygwin 1.5.25-14

"Great help in reviewing."

by Marshall Nolan on January 20, 2009

Pros: Able to get practice in and actually develope some scripts nicely.

Cons: Wish I could do more with some of the features not supported.

Summary: Great product and the price is right!

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