getting cygwin for windows

fakie_flip · 03-08-2006, 10:43 PM

When I am away from home, I don't have Linux, but I would like to run my favorite Linux programs and a ssh server. I have looked up cygwin and found 4 different types. There is one made by redhat, one called cygwin x, cygnome, and another one. What is the differences? I thought there was only one cygwin, so I was going to download it, but now I know there is several. I want to run Linux gui programs in Windows too. What is the difference between cygwin/x and cygnome?

megaspaz · 03-08-2006, 10:49 PM

don't really know about cygwin/x. I use cygwin from http://www.cygwin.com/ on my corp laptop. It works pretty good. Most KDE apps will bring up a crash handler when closing them, though. Depending on the connection though, it can run almost unbearably slow...

spooon · 03-09-2006, 01:27 AM

There is one Cygwin (it is currently maintained by RedHat, but that is unimportant). Cygwin/X just refers to the X server stuff in Cygwin. There are different projects that port GNOME and KDE to Cygwin (Cygwin already has a lot of GNOME stuff); you probably won't need these.