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There's an identical project under way at TheOpenCD.org, where they already voted for applications to be included, and have a categorized list, with links and reviews, including rating for documentation, ease-of-use, appearance...

And don't forget to check out GNU Software for Windows

Dude, that's what the CD is.

It will come with the 1.0 versions of OpenOffice, Mozilla, AbiWord and other programs as well...

The Windows port of GIMP might be cool, but its a bit buggy and is based on a buggier port of Gtk.

For programmers, the Free Pascal compiler (which has been 1.0 for a while now) and tools might be cool as well, along with WinCVS and Emacs or XEmacs. Vim, too.

The Cygwin ports of XFree86 and KDE might be cool, too. :)

The Windows port of PINE? (Or is that not Open Source) Ok, never mind, PINE sucks. :)

Look at GNU Software For Windows Site for more ideas.

The site: www.gnusoftware.com, which is nothing officially to do with GNU, is a collection of links to open source Windows projects. I've already used it to compile some pretty useful CDs to give away to people.

If you take a look at GNUSoftware.com you'll find tons of Unix software for Windows.

To answer your question, specifically, though here's the page for Unix shells, where you have the choice of Bash, Tcsh, and ZSh

If you take a look at GNUSoftware.com you'll find tons of Unix software for Windows.

To answer your question, specifically, though here's the page for Unix shells, where you have the choice of Bash, Tcsh, and ZSh

I think Stallman does recognize this, as evidenced by the nearly ubiquitous Win32 ports of GNU software (see here for a list).

Shameless plug I know - but GNUSoftware.com has a directory of tons of GNU stuff ported to Windows.

Check it out sometime, and add pointers to software that isn't listed .. please!

Now I need to check and see if someone's ported tcsh yet...

Its already done ...

Here are just a few of the tools that are considered traditionally in UNIX/Linux/BSD territory that are available for Win32. In all actuality, there's enough out there to get as much of Linux running on Win32 as Win32 running under WINE.
XFree86: http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/xfree/
KDE: http://kde-cygwin.sourceforge.net/
GTK/PHP/Libglade: http://gtk.php.net/download.php

Apache: http://www.apache.org
PHP: http://www.php.net
PHPTriad: http://www.phpgeek.com
Perl: http://www.activestate.com
Ruby: http://www.pragmaticprogrammer.com/ruby/downloads/ ruby-install.html
Python: http://www.python.org/download/download_windows.ht ml
TCL/TK: http://www.pconline.com/%7Eerc/tclwin.htm

MySQL: http://www.mysql.com
MySQL ODBC: http://www.mysql.com/downloads/api-myodbc.html
PostgreSQL: Included in cygwin (only works on NT)

ATT's U/WIN* Unix for Windows: http://www.research.att.com/sw/tools/uwin/
Cygwin: http://sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin/
DJGPP: http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/
Native UNIX command-line binaries: http://www.wzw.tu-muenchen.de/~syring/win32/UnxUti ls.html

vi: http://www.cs.vu.nl/~tmgil/vi.html
Emacs: http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/voelker/ntemacs .html
OpenOffice: http://www.openoffice.org

Mozilla: http://www.mozilla.org
GIMP: http://user.sgic.fi/~tml/gimp/win32/

List of GNU software for Windows: http://www.gnusoftware.com/
And so on . . .

There's a list over at DMOZ.org of a lot of this.

As somebody else said there's http://www.gnusoftware.com. Also, in the last few weeks, I've been putting together a CD of free (as in speech) software for Windows for a volunteer project I'm involved in. You can see the contents list here.

It's be good to get a proper project together to package this sort of thing well. It's a useful fundraiser for local projects, as well as introducing Windows users to free software, and easing them into migrating to a free OS. My introduction to free software was through Perl for Win32 - as ActiveState's port was known back then. I read the GPL, thought "Wow!", and never looked back. BTW, avoid ActivePerl; the "ActiveState Community License," or whatever it's called sucks.

Is there a freedom software distro for Microsoft Windows. Such a thing would be a great boon. They should be everywhere like AOL cd's.

There exists such a distribution of GNU software compiled for Win32, available in the UK. Too bad cheapbytes doesn't seem to sell anything similar. However, cheapbytes does sell this CD containing DJGPP (a 32-bit DOS C compiler) and "LLC" (LCC?) for Win32.

What you're really missing is a business model. AOL's model is to give away the bisks and sell the connection.

It is possible to install an awfull lot of GNU/Open Source programs on Windows.

The hard part is spending the time to track down clones of the software you want, or software that is good in its own right.

I suppose the biggest thing you need to think about is the kind of software you want:

• You want graphics - get The Gimp
• You want an editor - Get Emacs
• You want encryption - Get GNU PG
• You want music - Get FreeAmp

Start at one of the meta-repositories, such as Freshmeat, or GNUSoftware.com - and search around.

With enough time, and patience, you can go a very long way..

Does anyone know of a shell that's been ported to Windows 2000? Or if not an entire shell, just the command-line tools would make me happy.

Why not look here, for a whole range of GNU software running on Windows..

I maintain GNUSoftware.com - which may be a little bit relevant.

It stores pointers to Linux/Unix applications that are available on the Windows platform - this could enable you to try out, for example, Emacs on your current platform and get used to it before you switch.

Similarly you could download a port of GCC and get used to its command line interface, options etc, without leaving the environment with which you're already comfortable..

There are a few different companies that offer this service .. but I'm not sure if they would be appropriate for you.

For example I use Regsoft.com, for people buying GNU CD-ROMs (From GNUSoftware.com).

The problem is that a lot of these companies assume that you're selling software, and want to handle registration keys for you - with their "Register.exe" program, or similar.

Depending on the volume of sales you want you might be better off just getting a merchant bank account ..

Basically the difference between telnet, and ssh is the way in which the characters are sent between your machine and the remote one.

With telnet each of your keypresses is send plain text, whereas SSH uses encryption which stops people from sniffing your connection.

If the remote machine runns SSHD, (the ssh server), then you really should be using SSH.

For a free SSH client for windows do a search on : http://www.gnusoftware.com.

You could try looking at the following site:

http://www.gnu software.com/ilink/ilink.cgi?Category=E-mail%3ASen ding

You want to look at GNUSoftware.com - that has a large list of pointers to different GNU compilers available for Windows NT.

Steve

http://steve.org.uk

You can find many of the popular unix tools for windows at http://www.gnusoftware.com.

You'll find bash, grep, cygwin, emacs ...

They've got some nice things there, look at geoshell's screenshots, you wouldn't believe it's windows.

Well, if you follow Douglas Adams, we're all part of a giant computer program to compute the answer the to meaning of life.

I guess that means we can add the Meaning of Life by Monty Python to this thread, and the entire Hitch-hikers guide to the universe collection as well ... if books qualify.

Steve
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GNUSoftware.com - GNU Software for Windows Users.

When I went looking for a PC last time round I knew that I wanted something sexy, with lots of nice toys.

So I looked at some of the big combined packages, thinks like PC + scanner + printer + CD writer, and they all looked far more expensive than I thought they should be.

In the end I bought a generic bare bones PC, and filled all its slots by buying the cd, the network card, the scanner, etc, seperately.

I think if you were to do something similar you'd have the best of both worlds.

BTW I always get really annoyed when seeing adverts for "complete" PC's when it doesn't say how many slots/ports are going to be free..

Steve
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http://GNUSoftware.com/ GNU Software for Windows Users.

• On the one hand examples want to be simple to read.
• On the other hand students who see hundreds of examples with no bounds checking etc, are being trained to ignore errors themselves