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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. One question remains... by gzipped_tar · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... Does it run under WINE?

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    1. 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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  2. makes windows marginally bearable by pydev · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Even after all these years, Microsoft has nothing equivalent to the UNIX command line. The standard cmd.exe is too limited, and Powershell isn't a good interactive shell, it's more like typing at a Python or Ruby interpreter. Cygwin makes doing anything on Windows marginally tolerable and I install it on any Windows machine I happen to use.

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

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

  4. Re:min req windows by BitterOak · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

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  5. 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