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Re:Microsoft Adds an OpenSSH Client to Windows 10 by erikb on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @09:23AM (#15905704)
or just install msys2. Works just as well imo, and can more easily integrate other packages as well.
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Re:Microsoft Adds an OpenSSH Client to Windows 10 by irishcoffee on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @11:26AM (#15906793)
It felt like x-mas when I discovered msys. The package management blew my mind. Getting a qt kit set up took about 1 minute.

Great wiki about set up and use here: https://github.com/msys2/msys2/wiki

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Re:Microsoft Adds an OpenSSH Client to Windows 10 by dangerbird2 on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @02:40PM (#15908770)
Msys uses Arch Linux's package manager of all things
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Re:Microsoft Adds an OpenSSH Client to Windows 10 by erikb on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @04:26PM (#15909633)
Yeah it's not such a mind-blower if you are experienced in using Linux, where this is just common, but it's still really nice to not miss this when working on Windows.

However in the current version of MSYS2 (after an update a few months ago) they suddenly seem to mix the different linux-like distributions and for me it's really hard to choose which shell to use and which package to install for that shell.

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Re:Microsoft Adds an OpenSSH Client to Windows 10 by irishcoffee on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @07:02PM (#15910731)
Yeah I should clarify, the fact that msys had built in package management was just the most pleasant surprise ever. I use windows when I have to, not by choice. :)
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Re:Microsoft Adds an OpenSSH Client to Windows 10 by w4yai on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @10:29AM (#15906225)
MSYS2 is highly underated, it works perfectly and I cannot work without it now.
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Re:Microsoft Adds an OpenSSH Client to Windows 10 by CamperBob2 on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @07:19PM (#15910830)
So it's basically a much-improved MinGW or binutils package, is that the idea?
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Re:Microsoft Adds an OpenSSH Client to Windows 10 by RayDonnelly on Thursday December 14, 2017 @08:54PM (#15929120)
No it's a completely open source, built from source (using gcc) software distribution for Windows. It uses pacman to install packages and comes with many hundreds of prebuilt ones.
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Re:Microsoft Adds an OpenSSH Client to Windows 10 by philamonster on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @09:29AM (#15905752)
Yes! OOTB package mgmt...
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