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Cygwin 1.7 Released
jensend writes "The 1.7 branch of Cygwin, the Unix-like environment for Windows, has reached stable status after about 3 1/2 years of effort. Among many other changes, this release drops support for Windows 9x. Since the NT API and NT-based versions of Windows are more capable and somewhat less of a mismatch with POSIX (for instance, they include a security model), this has allowed for code path simplifications, better performance (particularly noticeable with pipe I/O), better security, and better POSIX compatibility."
... Does it run under WINE?
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who actually uses this... it REQUIRES windows?
I know. I've been hoping for years they'll release a version for Linux, but they never do.
If I can be modded down for being a troll, can I be modded up for being an orc, or a balrog?
It works well using WINE.
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True. Where i work, my coworkers would try to write a C# app to do it. Command line stuff is bad form.