Foreign Linux: Run Linux binaries on Windows without drivers or modification

Re:Foreign Linux: Run Linux binaries on Windows without driv... by Maakuth on Thursday March 12, 2015 @07:45AM (#9190151)

My biggest gripe with Cygwin (aside performance on some syscalls) has been package management, which used to require setup.exe to add or upgrade packages. That was nicely mitigated when I found out about apt-cyg[1]. It's a apt-getish frontend for setup.exe command line. Not as nice as real apt-get of course, but "apt-cyg install something" takes care of the most important use case.

1: https://github.com/transcode-open/apt-cyg

EDIT: changed to github url

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Foreign Linux: Run Linux binaries on Windows without driv... by Lambdanaut on Thursday March 12, 2015 @09:49AM (#9190721)

It would also be really nice if Cygwin did a quick ping on all of the package hosts and then ordered them in order of least latency relative to you. Oftentimes I have to re-start the install process because I accidentally chose a host that's slow enough to delay the install for hours.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Foreign Linux: Run Linux binaries on Windows without driv... by AlfonsoP on Thursday March 12, 2015 @02:00PM (#9192541)

I wish it would sort by network throughput instead of latency.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Foreign Linux: Run Linux binaries on Windows without driv... by rlvesco7 on Thursday March 12, 2015 @09:00AM (#9190451)

Babun provides an nice layer over cygwin (preinstalled oh-my-z and other goodies) along with an excellent package manager as well. https://github.com/babun/babun

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Foreign Linux: Run Linux binaries on Windows without driv... by hiperlink on Thursday March 12, 2015 @09:17AM (#9190533)

Which is based on apt-cyg AFAIK. And I missed the the ``apt-get upgrade`` functionality in both pact/apt-cyg.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Foreign Linux: Run Linux binaries on Windows without driv... by Maakuth on Thursday March 12, 2015 @09:41AM (#9190666)

Indeed. It's kind of weird there's no package manager beyond setup.exe in Cygwin. There's even a port of rpm in the package collection. I wonder if Cygwin misses some bigger piece of functionality that is a requirement for rpm. Or maybe it's just good enough for most of use cases.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Foreign Linux: Run Linux binaries on Windows without driv... by mijoharas on Thursday March 12, 2015 @08:57AM (#9190440)

Problem with apt-cyg is the occasional need to "rebaseall" to keep the cygwin dll's happy. a proper package manager would be nice, though it is a good solution all things considered.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Foreign Linux: Run Linux binaries on Windows without driv... by alinspired on Thursday March 12, 2015 @03:47PM (#9193308)

Couple apt-cyg with a batch script to install updates unattended - this made cygwin much nicer:

cd C:\distr\cygwin setup-x86_64.exe --no-desktop --no-shortcuts --no-startmenu --quiet-mode

[ Parent | on HN ]