• Cygwin is: a large collection of GNU and Open Source tools which provide functionality similar to a Linux distribution on Windows.
  • Cygwin is a free Unix/Linux-like (POSIX) environment for Windows. It consists of: a DLL (cygwin1.dll) which acts as a Linux API emulation layer.
  • So, my goal was to create a Windows environment that allowed me to use either Cygwin or WSL, without worrying about which shell I was operating in.
  • The Cygwin DLL works with all non-beta, non "release candidate", ix86 32 bit versions of Windows since Windows 95, with the exception of Windows CE.
  • Cygwin, Linux ve Unix gibi şeyler için yazılmış programların Windows üzerinde çalışmasına izin veren ücretsiz bir komut satırı arabirimidir.
    • 2.2. What about an automated Cygwin installation?
    • 2.3. Does the Cygwin Setup program accept command-line arguments?
    • 2.4. Can I install Cygwin without administrator rights?
  • Such readers should be interested in Cygwin: Cygwin provides a Linux-like environment in a window running on the Windows operating system.
  • Read https://cygwin.com/contrib.html and submit patches via the mailing list cygwin-patches AT cygwin DOT com.
  • Initially, Cygwin was called gnuwin32.[note 1] When Microsoft registered the trademark Win32, the "32" was dropped to simply become Cygwin.
  • Cygwin Linux terminalini Windows bilgisayarınıza taşıyor! ... Cygwin terminali, açık kaynak kodlu Linux dağıtımlarının çoğunu destekler.