Cygwin

cmvanbrunt - April 7, 2006 - 10:25am

I'd primarily like this for the X11 server. I have to use windows boxes at school all the time, but they never have an X11 server installed, so I can't easily ssh to my home system (well, I can, but a command prompt isn't necessarily useful). (Also - a portable ssh client aside from putty would rock.)

Cygwin is an open source package available at http://www.cygwin.com

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A start

Thox - April 10, 2006 - 4:51am

Here's a good start: Cygwin on portable storage devices.

Most excellent. I'll take a

cmvanbrunt - April 11, 2006 - 7:01pm

Most excellent. I'll take a look at that. Thanks.

Can a portable Cygwin be

dotancohen - July 13, 2006 - 1:03pm

Can a portable Cygwin be hosting here on PortableApps? If it needs a maintainer, then I'd be willing to do it.

Cygwin Portable ?

ronh - March 2, 2007 - 5:31pm

Hey
I tried the suggestion in the aforementioned link but its not as easy to use.
Any chance of us seeing a PortableApps version of Cygwin?
Thanks, ronh

I'll second

aredot - April 3, 2007 - 11:38pm

I'll second that.

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I'll third that...

Preacher - April 3, 2007 - 11:56pm

...since I'd love to see what Konqueror could do in Windows!

"I don't hate cats...as long as they stay on the freeway, where they belong."
- Brad Stine

Taken from the cygwin

ZachHudock

- April 4, 2007 - 12:55am

Taken from the cygwin site

What Isn't Cygwin?
** Cygwin is not a way to run native linux apps on Windows. You have to rebuild your application from source if you want it to run on Windows.

The developer formerly known as ZGitRDun8705

good request

guestt - April 4, 2007 - 10:44am

I second that aswell too.

Btw colinux and such are the way to run linux apps native on windows (no emulation - http://portableapps.com/node/5653).

Yeah, sucks...

Preacher - April 4, 2007 - 12:37pm

.. For those of us who aren't programming-type dudes