[TriLUG] cygwin reviews

Jason Watts jsnonzzr at gmail.com
Mon Oct 27 18:03:40 EDT 2008


Dont be a PHB??  whats a PHB??  so lost on that :(

On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 5:56 PM, Kevin Hunter <hunteke at earlham.edu> wrote:

>  At 5:42pm -0400 on Mon, 27 Oct 2008, Jason Watts wrote:
> > I am considering doing some rsync stuff between a few windows systems and
> > have heard about cygwin a few times.  Does anyone on here use it and is
> > there any other/better recommended things to use?  Just asking for
> opinions
> > before I start installing things on my PC's
>
> If it's *just* for rsync stuff, I might suggest to install piecemeal
> what you need:
>
> http://sf.net/projects/rsyncwin32/
>
> If you want other *nix tools and functionality, then consider cygwin.
> Cygwin's great (installing it right now, in fact), but it's not the
> solution to *every* problem.
>
> It's also one of those things that you'll need to use to get a feel for
> it.  Don't be a PHB!  :-)
>
> Kevin
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