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Cygwin 1.7 Released

Posted by timothy on from the christmas-present dept.

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."

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  1. search! by spongman · · Score: 5, Informative

    love the search feature in setup.exe !! long overdue, but welcome nonetheless.

  2. Yes. by amake · · Score: 5, Informative

    Yes. From the announcement:

    - Default character set is now UTF-8, but other character sets are
        supported via an improved internationalization support. See
        http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/setup-locale.html

  3. Re:One question remains... by DMUTPeregrine · · Score: 5, Informative

    Yes, Cygwin does run under WINE. And WINE runs under Cygwin. It can be an amusing stress test.

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  4. Re:makes windows marginally bearable by lena_10326 · · Score: 5, Informative

    ...but both SFU/SUA and Cygwin are pretty much just different shells on top of the limited cmd.exe window, unless you happen to use rxvt (which is usually not worth the trouble).

    What are you talking about? First, only lobotomized moron monkeys would use CMD.EXE. Second, put this

    C:\cygwin\bin\rxvt.exe -e /bin/bash --login

    into a windows short cut. Set "Start in" to c:\cygwin\bin and it works just fine. Now, how much work was that? Have you got 2 minutes to spare out of your day? Quit your bitchin. Wuss.

    What I use:

    C:\cygwin\bin\rxvt.exe -geometry 132x60+0+0 -fn "FixedSys" -e /bin/bash --login

    because the default font is ugly.

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