Xah Lee, 2011-06-27
So, i got a new PC. Last time, i thought that i should try VirtualBox+Linux instead of Cygwin, because i thought that would give me several advantages: improved performance, ease of software management. (See: Unix tools on Windows: Cygwin vs VirtualBox) Well, i installed VirtualBox with Ubuntu, but haven't got the hang of it. It's quite time consuming to figure it all out. For now, am back to Cygwin. lol.
Here's cygwin programs i have installed, as a record for myself.
Following programs are installed by default from cygwin core (the “Base” category in the installer): GNU coreutils, GNU findutils (find, xargs, …), grep, sed, awk, tar, gzip.
Following are not installed by cygwin by default, which i need. Those with a star are critical (to me).
openssh (ssh) ★ zip, unzip ★ bzip2 (for “.bz2”) ★ subversion ★ make ★ patchutils git mercurial patch patchutils aspell ★ aspell english dict ★ imagemagick, graphicsmagic ★ optipng ★ exif (get meta info in images) python ★ perl ★ ocaml ruby lua scsh chicken (scheme lisp) clisp (common lisp) rsync ★ unison 2.27, 2.32, 2.40 ★ curl, wget ★ wput ncftp whois ping netcat bind emacs,vim webcheck (html link checker) tidy (html reformatter) lynx (text web browser) w3m (text web browser) gnupg (encrypt your files) googlecl (google command line) -------------- fdupes (find duplicate files) haskell ctag cron
See also: Installing Cygwin Tutorial.