I had a machine die a couple weeks ago. I ordered a new one, and borrowed a temp for the duration. One of my key packages is Cygwin, but I can't use the entire suite. Hence there's quite a bit of ...

I've become a huge advocate of Cygwin over the past few months, originally for the SSH server, then more and more for general linux-related stuff. I was just curious about others' experiences with it.

If you still think that operating systems are tied to hardware, you need to update your thinking; nowadays there are lots of options that let you run one operating system within another or in parallel ...

The upcoming release of Cygwin version 1.7 will be dropping support for Windows 9x (Windows 95, Windows 98 and Windows Me). If you're lucky enough never to have to use Windows, Cygwin probably seems ...