[NTLUG:Discuss] Linux on Windows

[Steve Baker]

Merlin wrote:

> I've used a product called Cygwin that works fairly well.

Cygwin isn't Linux though.

It has a 'bash' type shell and a lot of the GNU tools and the gcc
compiler - but it's very definitely just an application under Windows.

You can't run Linux binaries or mount a Linux filesystem or anything
and all the problems of running Windows (security, BSoD's, etc) are
still there.

Programs that run under Cygwin are just regular Windoze programs.
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