Yeah, I read some info on there site. I find that very interesting. I may give it a try. How
much linux can you do with colinux? I am new to this kind of stuff. I am wanting to learn more
about this kind of stuff.
William
--- Andrew Barber <tuorum@yahoo.com> wrote:
> cygwin gives you the standard GNU utilities to run
> under windows. The list is quite large of the
> packages and even includes X.org (rooted and
> rootless), apache, gcc and all development stuff.
>
> If you want to run an actual Linux distribution on top
> of Windows, check out colinux
> (http://www.colinux.org).
>
> I use cygwin mainly for all the normal command-line
> tools I'm use to (vi, sed, awk, find, diff, perl,
> bash). I find it useful when I've got some wierd file
> in an odd ball format I want to extract data out of.
> Or to rip ISO CD images with readcd.
>
> cygwin itself is not a program, but a library for
> Windows that provides a POSIX environment. To build
> packages, you can usually just ./configure;make;make
> install.
>
> Andy
>
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