#cygwin — Public Fediverse posts
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someone had the great idea to create #cygwin for #win9x!
> "Run Linux apps on Windows 95 with Windows 9x subsystem for Linux"
> Microsoft introduced a Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) with Windows 10. Initially it allowed you to run command line Linux utilities in Windows, but over time Microsoft added support for applications with a graphical user interface. But WSL still only officially supports Windows 10 and Windows 11. What if you want to run Linux apps on an older version of Windows?
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> Enter the Windows 9x subsystem for Linux (WSL9x), an unofficial tool for running Linux apps on Windows 95, an operating system that’s more than three decades old.
https://liliputing.com/run-native-linux-apps-on-windows-95-with-windows-9x-subsystem-for-linux/ -
someone had the great idea to create #cygwin for #win9x!
> "Run Linux apps on Windows 95 with Windows 9x subsystem for Linux"
> Microsoft introduced a Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) with Windows 10. Initially it allowed you to run command line Linux utilities in Windows, but over time Microsoft added support for applications with a graphical user interface. But WSL still only officially supports Windows 10 and Windows 11. What if you want to run Linux apps on an older version of Windows?
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> Enter the Windows 9x subsystem for Linux (WSL9x), an unofficial tool for running Linux apps on Windows 95, an operating system that’s more than three decades old.
https://liliputing.com/run-native-linux-apps-on-windows-95-with-windows-9x-subsystem-for-linux/ -
someone had the great idea to create #cygwin for #win9x!
> "Run Linux apps on Windows 95 with Windows 9x subsystem for Linux"
> Microsoft introduced a Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) with Windows 10. Initially it allowed you to run command line Linux utilities in Windows, but over time Microsoft added support for applications with a graphical user interface. But WSL still only officially supports Windows 10 and Windows 11. What if you want to run Linux apps on an older version of Windows?
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> Enter the Windows 9x subsystem for Linux (WSL9x), an unofficial tool for running Linux apps on Windows 95, an operating system that’s more than three decades old.
https://liliputing.com/run-native-linux-apps-on-windows-95-with-windows-9x-subsystem-for-linux/ -
someone had the great idea to create #cygwin for #win9x!
> "Run Linux apps on Windows 95 with Windows 9x subsystem for Linux"
> Microsoft introduced a Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) with Windows 10. Initially it allowed you to run command line Linux utilities in Windows, but over time Microsoft added support for applications with a graphical user interface. But WSL still only officially supports Windows 10 and Windows 11. What if you want to run Linux apps on an older version of Windows?
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> Enter the Windows 9x subsystem for Linux (WSL9x), an unofficial tool for running Linux apps on Windows 95, an operating system that’s more than three decades old.
https://liliputing.com/run-native-linux-apps-on-windows-95-with-windows-9x-subsystem-for-linux/ -
someone had the great idea to create #cygwin for #win9x!
> "Run Linux apps on Windows 95 with Windows 9x subsystem for Linux"
> Microsoft introduced a Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) with Windows 10. Initially it allowed you to run command line Linux utilities in Windows, but over time Microsoft added support for applications with a graphical user interface. But WSL still only officially supports Windows 10 and Windows 11. What if you want to run Linux apps on an older version of Windows?
>
> Enter the Windows 9x subsystem for Linux (WSL9x), an unofficial tool for running Linux apps on Windows 95, an operating system that’s more than three decades old.
https://liliputing.com/run-native-linux-apps-on-windows-95-with-windows-9x-subsystem-for-linux/ -
WSL is cool, but isn't it basically a vm?
#Cygwin just provides a translation layer for Windows' own POSIX layer. It's slower than a vm for shell scripts, as there is a costly
fork()penalty (or so it seems), but it's quite lightweight overall, and you don't notice shell scripts running slowly unless they're doing some crazy intensive processing/looping. -
WSL is cool, but isn't it basically a vm?
#Cygwin just provides a translation layer for Windows' own POSIX layer. It's slower than a vm for shell scripts, as there is a costly
fork()penalty (or so it seems), but it's quite lightweight overall, and you don't notice shell scripts running slowly unless they're doing some crazy intensive processing/looping. -
WSL is cool, but isn't it basically a vm?
#Cygwin just provides a translation layer for Windows' own POSIX layer. It's slower than a vm for shell scripts, as there is a costly
fork()penalty (or so it seems), but it's quite lightweight overall, and you don't notice shell scripts running slowly unless they're doing some crazy intensive processing/looping. -
WSL is cool, but isn't it basically a vm?
#Cygwin just provides a translation layer for Windows' own POSIX layer. It's slower than a vm for shell scripts, as there is a costly
fork()penalty (or so it seems), but it's quite lightweight overall, and you don't notice shell scripts running slowly unless they're doing some crazy intensive processing/looping. -
WSL is cool, but isn't it basically a vm?
#Cygwin just provides a translation layer for Windows' own POSIX layer. It's slower than a vm for shell scripts, as there is a costly
fork()penalty (or so it seems), but it's quite lightweight overall, and you don't notice shell scripts running slowly unless they're doing some crazy intensive processing/looping. -
Wow, that's some crazy tight color theming!
I've got several gigs of wallpapers from the "Microsoft Signature" wallpapers in Win10 that I scraped with a shell script in #cygwin on the one windows box I occasionally use. XD
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Wow, that's some crazy tight color theming!
I've got several gigs of wallpapers from the "Microsoft Signature" wallpapers in Win10 that I scraped with a shell script in #cygwin on the one windows box I occasionally use. XD
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Wow, that's some crazy tight color theming!
I've got several gigs of wallpapers from the "Microsoft Signature" wallpapers in Win10 that I scraped with a shell script in #cygwin on the one windows box I occasionally use. XD
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Wow, that's some crazy tight color theming!
I've got several gigs of wallpapers from the "Microsoft Signature" wallpapers in Win10 that I scraped with a shell script in #cygwin on the one windows box I occasionally use. XD
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Wow, that's some crazy tight color theming!
I've got several gigs of wallpapers from the "Microsoft Signature" wallpapers in Win10 that I scraped with a shell script in #cygwin on the one windows box I occasionally use. XD
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Sourceware Survey 2025 Results
In the end we got 103 (!) responses with a nice mix of developers, users and maintainers from various hosted projects.
https://sourceware.org/survey-2025
#binutils #cygwin #dwarfstd #elfutils #gcc #gdb #glibc #libabigail #newlib #systemTap #valgrind #bzip2 #libffi #dwz #debugedit #gnupoke #bunsen #lvm2 #annobin #gnu-gabi #cgen #kawa #insight #pacme
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Sourceware Survey 2025 Results
In the end we got 103 (!) responses with a nice mix of developers, users and maintainers from various hosted projects.
https://sourceware.org/survey-2025
#binutils #cygwin #dwarfstd #elfutils #gcc #gdb #glibc #libabigail #newlib #systemTap #valgrind #bzip2 #libffi #dwz #debugedit #gnupoke #bunsen #lvm2 #annobin #gnu-gabi #cgen #kawa #insight #pacme
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Sourceware Survey 2025 Results
In the end we got 103 (!) responses with a nice mix of developers, users and maintainers from various hosted projects.
https://sourceware.org/survey-2025
#binutils #cygwin #dwarfstd #elfutils #gcc #gdb #glibc #libabigail #newlib #systemTap #valgrind #bzip2 #libffi #dwz #debugedit #gnupoke #bunsen #lvm2 #annobin #gnu-gabi #cgen #kawa #insight #pacme
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Sourceware Survey 2025 Results
In the end we got 103 (!) responses with a nice mix of developers, users and maintainers from various hosted projects.
https://sourceware.org/survey-2025
#binutils #cygwin #dwarfstd #elfutils #gcc #gdb #glibc #libabigail #newlib #systemTap #valgrind #bzip2 #libffi #dwz #debugedit #gnupoke #bunsen #lvm2 #annobin #gnu-gabi #cgen #kawa #insight #pacme
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CW: CW Cygwin
Meine heimliche Schwäche ist ja #Cygwin, weil ich unter Windows keinen anderen SSH-Client als openssh in mintty ertragen kann. Wo ich das grade nach Jahren mal wieder installiere, fällt mir auf, dass #Python weiterhin komplett unmaintained ist (3.9 oder so, halber running-Gag), während ein tagesaktuelles #Curl installiert wird, das aktueller sein dürfte als auf 99% aller Linux-Installation da draußen. Wilde Combo.
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CW: CW Cygwin
Meine heimliche Schwäche ist ja #Cygwin, weil ich unter Windows keinen anderen SSH-Client als openssh in mintty ertragen kann. Wo ich das grade nach Jahren mal wieder installiere, fällt mir auf, dass #Python weiterhin komplett unmaintained ist (3.9 oder so, halber running-Gag), während ein tagesaktuelles #Curl installiert wird, das aktueller sein dürfte als auf 99% aller Linux-Installation da draußen. Wilde Combo.
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CW: CW Cygwin
Meine heimliche Schwäche ist ja #Cygwin, weil ich unter Windows keinen anderen SSH-Client als openssh in mintty ertragen kann. Wo ich das grade nach Jahren mal wieder installiere, fällt mir auf, dass #Python weiterhin komplett unmaintained ist (3.9 oder so, halber running-Gag), während ein tagesaktuelles #Curl installiert wird, das aktueller sein dürfte als auf 99% aller Linux-Installation da draußen. Wilde Combo.
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CW: CW Cygwin
Meine heimliche Schwäche ist ja #Cygwin, weil ich unter Windows keinen anderen SSH-Client als openssh in mintty ertragen kann. Wo ich das grade nach Jahren mal wieder installiere, fällt mir auf, dass #Python weiterhin komplett unmaintained ist (3.9 oder so, halber running-Gag), während ein tagesaktuelles #Curl installiert wird, das aktueller sein dürfte als auf 99% aller Linux-Installation da draußen. Wilde Combo.
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CW: CW Cygwin
Meine heimliche Schwäche ist ja #Cygwin, weil ich unter Windows keinen anderen SSH-Client als openssh in mintty ertragen kann. Wo ich das grade nach Jahren mal wieder installiere, fällt mir auf, dass #Python weiterhin komplett unmaintained ist (3.9 oder so, halber running-Gag), während ein tagesaktuelles #Curl installiert wird, das aktueller sein dürfte als auf 99% aller Linux-Installation da draußen. Wilde Combo.
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@argv_minus_one You know... `autoconf` was for times, when we have several #Unix systems in the field, each significantly different from each other, especially in terms of `libc` support. Today we have 3, with one having two flavours - `musl` and `glibc`; third one from #Apple is not usually that strongly supported.
Then keep in mind `autoconf` was practically non-existent on #Windows (and no, #Cygwin and #msys don't count).
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@argv_minus_one You know... `autoconf` was for times, when we have several #Unix systems in the field, each significantly different from each other, especially in terms of `libc` support. Today we have 3, with one having two flavours - `musl` and `glibc`; third one from #Apple is not usually that strongly supported.
Then keep in mind `autoconf` was practically non-existent on #Windows (and no, #Cygwin and #msys don't count).
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@argv_minus_one You know... `autoconf` was for times, when we have several #Unix systems in the field, each significantly different from each other, especially in terms of `libc` support. Today we have 3, with one having two flavours - `musl` and `glibc`; third one from #Apple is not usually that strongly supported.
Then keep in mind `autoconf` was practically non-existent on #Windows (and no, #Cygwin and #msys don't count).
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@argv_minus_one You know... `autoconf` was for times, when we have several #Unix systems in the field, each significantly different from each other, especially in terms of `libc` support. Today we have 3, with one having two flavours - `musl` and `glibc`; third one from #Apple is not usually that strongly supported.
Then keep in mind `autoconf` was practically non-existent on #Windows (and no, #Cygwin and #msys don't count).
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@argv_minus_one You know... `autoconf` was for times, when we have several #Unix systems in the field, each significantly different from each other, especially in terms of `libc` support. Today we have 3, with one having two flavours - `musl` and `glibc`; third one from #Apple is not usually that strongly supported.
Then keep in mind `autoconf` was practically non-existent on #Windows (and no, #Cygwin and #msys don't count).
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「Cygwin 3.6」が公開 ～「SMB 1.0」廃止にかかわる変更や新しいAPIコールなど／Windows上に擬似的なUNIX環境を構築する互換レイヤー
https://forest.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/news/1672194.html#forest_watch_impress #Cygwin #システム_ファイル #システム #Windows #Linux
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「Cygwin 3.6」が公開 ～「SMB 1.0」廃止にかかわる変更や新しいAPIコールなど／Windows上に擬似的なUNIX環境を構築する互換レイヤー
https://forest.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/news/1672194.html#forest_watch_impress #Cygwin #システム_ファイル #システム #Windows #Linux
