Cygwin Essential Install List (2011)

Here is a list of essential Cygwin programs.

the following are not installed by Cygwin by default.

• zip
• unzip
• bzip2 (for “.bz2”)
• xz

• Linux: Extract tar zip gzip lzip bzip2 xz rar

• openssh (ssh)
• ca-certificates (needed for git)

• Git: Basics
• svn Tutorial
• make
• patchutils

• Linux: rsync tutorial
• Unison Tutorial (Sync Files)
• Linux: wget (Download Web Page)
• Linux: curl (Download Web Page)

• unix: aspell Tutorial
• aspell sucks: Dismal Vocabulary Size

• ImageMagick Tutorial
• Command to Delete EXIF Metadata in Image Files
• optipng

• Python Tutorial
• Perl Tutorial
• OCaml Tutorial
• Ruby Tutorial

• Practical Emacs Tutorial
• Emergency vim Tutorial

• GPG Tutorial