15
May
Cygwin, A fish out of water!!!
Cygwin is a great tool for unix people who find themselves in a Microsoft world. I’ve been using Cygwin for years but never for more than some very basic things. Lately I’ve been spending some more time with it and I have to say I’m really impressed. I won’t go into any unix basics or how to install Cygwin as there are many good references on the internet.[1][2] What I will do is list some tips and techniques that I have found useful and not entirely obvious such as setting up a tool for managing packages similar to Debians venerable apt-get, managing ssh keys, replacing the standard windows dos shell as the terminal and using apt-cyg to install packages not in the standard Cygwin repositories.
