* Q17. I see Cygwin mentioned every now and then. Do I need it to use coLinux ?
Ne razumem se bas nesto, ali, evo i oni govore i o Cygwin-u:
Ok, Cygwin is indeed mentioned on several pages in this Wiki, and also often mentioned on the mailing lists and maybe even in the official documentation and web site. You can also notice it quite often in screenshots.
BUT you don't need it to install and use coLinux at all. There was a dependancy on cygwin.dll long ago, but it's gone by now.
Cygwin is like a Swiss-army knife, it really deserves its own page but in short, it provides you with :
* bash and Unix-like file completion - a real shell you can use instead of good old cmd.exe
* many handy Unix command-line tools (dd, tar, gzip, zip/unzip, bzip2/bunzip2, md5sum, whois...) but you can get the same functionality elsewhere too
* a X Window server is available too, even if it is not the fastest X Window server you can find for Windows
* the GNU C/C++ compiler suite, while not stricly needed either, allows you to build other packages like e2fsprogs to create, format, check, enlarge coLinux images...
so in short, it is very handy and indeed many coLinux users are also heavy Cygwin users.
oh, Cygwin is mostly GPL, with some parts with other rather similar licences (Apache, X11).
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