Unix Tools on Windows
January 22, 2009 – 01:40I do UNIX system administration. UNIX. Not just Linux. I work with FreeBSD, NetBSD, SCO, Irix, and even and old Xenix system every once in a while.
I used to use a BSD workstation to do it. But I got tired of having two machines on my desk. It’s unsightly, it’s heat producing, and you have to have a monster desk.
I then just shelled into my Unix box in the other room. SSH out, full tools, yay. But I knew it could be smoother. I have used the free PuTTY telnet/ssh tool for years to do this. Lately, if/when putty loses the connection to my server, it hangs and then runs away with itself. Bad putty. Bad.
So I had read about Cygwin a few years back, and didn’t bother to try it. I’ve got it installed now and it’s amazing how much better windows is with the right command line tools. Start Cygwin, it’s basically an xterm that gives you bash.
More later.
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