Posted by: Anonymous
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on June 25, 2008 12:58 PM
"Cygwin, the well-known Unix-like environment for Windows."
'Cygwin' is basically GNU/Windows. OK, Redhat had to write a Windows DLL to add functionality to Windows that the Gnu environment needs, but the result is that the GNU environment runs on the Windows kernel.
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Why did they call it Cygwin?
Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 82.192.250.149] on June 25, 2008 12:58 PM'Cygwin' is basically GNU/Windows. OK, Redhat had to write a Windows DLL to add functionality to Windows that the Gnu environment needs, but the result is that the GNU environment runs on the Windows kernel.
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