#XLibre runs on MS #Windows via #Cygwin. We already have #Mingw32 CI builds; now it works with #Cygwin too. In this screen:
XLibre XWin, Konsole, glxgears, xeyes, lxqt-panel for X11 side by side with Firefox for Windows 64-bit
More #LiberatedScreens at github.com/orgs/X11Libre/discussions/211
While my co-workers are almost exclusively #Apple hardware users, I stick with "#PCs" running #Windows (over the years, it's a choice that's resulted in fewer problems interacting with customer environments that are Windows-based). For me, Windows is more a framework than what I'm actually using: @Thunderbird@mastodon.online, Firefox and Chrome don't behave significantly differently on Windows, #OSX or #Linux (#HeresyAlert!). I've long used virtualization to run local Linux environments to do my remote systems administration tasks from and my development-related activities within.
A few years back, when Microsoft started pushing #WSL, I (mostly) switched from using a "full" hypervisor-based solution for my Windows-hosted local Linux environments. At the time of the switchover, I was moving from #HyperV (it came with Windows 10 Pro and saved me the hassle of setting up #VirtualBox and/or #Cygwin/X). One of the interesting things I've discovered with WSL is that if I launch an X-based application from the WSL shell, pointers, text, etc. are significantly larger than when I do the same from a #PuTTY session connecting to the same underlying WSL instance.
/shrug
WSL is cool, but isn't it basically a vm?
#Cygwin just provides a translation layer for Windows' own POSIX layer. It's slower than a vm for shell scripts, as there is a costly fork() penalty (or so it seems), but it's quite lightweight overall, and you don't notice shell scripts running slowly unless they're doing some crazy intensive processing/looping.
Wow, that's some crazy tight color theming!
I've got several gigs of wallpapers from the "Microsoft Signature" wallpapers in Win10 that I scraped with a shell script in #cygwin on the one windows box I occasionally use. XD
Sourceware Survey 2025 Results
In the end we got 103 (!) responses with a nice mix of developers, users and maintainers from various hosted projects.
https://sourceware.org/survey-2025
#binutils #cygwin #dwarfstd #elfutils #gcc #gdb #glibc #libabigail #newlib #systemTap #valgrind #bzip2 #libffi #dwz #debugedit #gnupoke #bunsen #lvm2 #annobin #gnu-gabi #cgen #kawa #insight #pacme
@argv_minus_one You know... `autoconf` was for times, when we have several #Unix systems in the field, each significantly different from each other, especially in terms of `libc` support. Today we have 3, with one having two flavours - `musl` and `glibc`; third one from #Apple is not usually that strongly supported.
Then keep in mind `autoconf` was practically non-existent on #Windows (and no, #Cygwin and #msys don't count).
Almost forgot.
Yesterday I tried installing #MSYS2. I think I need to redo it later with better luck.
I don't know how else to phrase it, but once I tried running full update, the MSYS2 environment just *shat itself.* I must emphasise that I do not use this kind of expression lightly.
First it said the pacman database was funky. Then bash started whining about not being able to create processes.
*What.*
...I uninstalled the whole thing before things got even weirder.
Last time I tried using #Cygwin was early 2000s. All I can remember about that experience was that it was mildly janky, and I heard that MinGW was coming to fix all that. ...I guess at this pace we'll never get rid of the jank.
https://github.com/gugod/App-perlbrew/actions/runs/13100409688/job/36547979805
Any cygwin users ?
I'm trying to run perlbrew tests on cygwin on GitHub Action. Most of the setup worked but it ended up with this error of missing `crypt.h` when installing dependencies. Module::Build::Tiny in this case, but perhaps there will be more.
If you know how this can be resolved or avoided, please help!
One positive thing about having been forced to use Windows many years ago is that I got exposed to #Cygwin, and the glory that is multi-line PS1 values (the default Cygwin PS1 was something along the lines of '\u@\h:\w\n\$ ').
That '\n' in there makes such a difference! Separate the long info line from where you're typing!
I wouldn't have thought that #Windows #security would make it quite so easy to bypass an access issue ... Can't rename a file with the windows commands, but doing it with #cygwin's mv succeeds ...
IDE (IntelliJ IDEA, Android Studio, Eclipse, NetBeans) plug-in Applet Runner version 2.14 released.
New shell applets:
* #Powershell
* #WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux)
* Git #Bash
* #Cygwin
* #SSH
* Bean Shell
Pretty sure I haven't used #PuTTY once since 2013, but that's just because I've been on MacOSX and #Linux the whole time, and the few times I had to use windows, I just used #Cygwin.
Not enough love, Cygwin. It's like reverse-WINE. (Of course, it does help that Windows has a (probably badly implemented and somewhat cursed) POSIX layer.)
Π‘ΡΠΈΠ»ΠΈΡΡΠΈΡΠ΅ΡΠΊΠΈΠΉ ΠΠ½Π°Π»ΠΈΠ·Π°ΡΠΎΡ: Π‘ΠΈΠ½Ρ ΡΠΎΠ½ΠΈΠ·Π°ΡΠΈΡ ΠΏΠΎΡΡΠ΄ΠΊΠ° ΠΎΠ±ΡΡΠ²Π»Π΅Π½ΠΈΠΉ ΠΈ ΠΎΠΏΡΠ΅Π΄Π΅Π»Π΅Π½ΠΈΠΉ ΡΡΠ½ΠΊΡΠΈΠΉ
Π£ Π½Π°Ρ Π² ΠΎΡΠ³Π°Π½ΠΈΠ·Π°ΡΠΈΠΈ Π΅ΡΡΡ ΠΎΠ±ΡΠ·Π°ΡΠ΅Π»ΡΠ½ΠΎΠ΅ ΠΏΡΠ°Π²ΠΈΠ»ΠΎ ΠΎΡΠΎΡΠΌΠ»Π΅Π½ΠΈΡ ΠΈΡΡ ΠΎΠ΄Π½ΠΈΠΊΠΎΠ², ΠΊΠΎΡΠΎΡΠΎΠ΅ Π·Π²ΡΡΠΈΡ ΡΠ°ΠΊ: ΠΠΎΡΡΠ΄ΠΎΠΊ ΠΎΠ±ΡΡΠ²Π»Π΅Π½ΠΈΡ Π‘-ΡΡΠ½ΠΊΡΠΈΠΉ Π΄ΠΎΠ»ΠΆΠ΅Π½ ΡΠΎΠ²ΠΏΠ°Π΄Π°ΡΡ Ρ ΠΏΠΎΡΡΠ΄ΠΊΠΎΠΌ ΠΎΠΏΡΠ΅Π΄Π΅Π»Π΅Π½ΠΈΡ Π‘-ΡΡΠ½ΠΊΡΠΈΠΉ. Π ΡΡΠΎΠΌ ΡΠ΅ΠΊΡΡΠ΅ ΠΏΡΠ΅Π΄ΡΡΠ°Π²Π»Π΅Π½ Π°Π»Π³ΠΎΡΠΈΡΠΌ ΡΠ°Π±ΠΎΡΡ ΠΊΠΎΠ½ΡΠΎΠ»ΡΠ½ΠΎΠΉ ΠΏΡΠΎΠ³ΡΠ°ΠΌΠΌΡ, ΠΊΠΎΡΠΎΡΠ°Ρ Π°Π²ΡΠΎΠΌΠ°ΡΠΈΡΠ΅ΡΠΊΠΈ Π²ΡΡΠ²Π»ΡΠ΅Ρ Π½Π°ΡΡΡΠ΅Π½ΠΈΡ ΡΡΠΎΠ³ΠΎ ΡΡΡΠ°Π½Π½ΠΎΠ³ΠΎ ΠΏΡΠ°Π²ΠΈΠ»Π°.
https://habr.com/ru/articles/844436/
#ctags #awk #gawk #sed #cygwin #cmp #gcc #ΡΡΠ°ΡΠΈΡΠ΅ΡΠΊΠΈΠΉ_Π°Π½Π°Π»ΠΈΠ· #ΡΡΠΈΠ»ΠΈΡΡΠΈΡΠ΅ΡΠΊΠΈΠΉ_Π°Π½Π°Π»ΠΈΠ· #static_analysis
Another useful #writing tool I almost forget to mention is wc. You'll find it on #Linux and #BSD distros. On Windows, #msys and #cygwin offer a version. There are several implementations of wc out there including versions in Busybox and Toybox. If you want to build it yourself or modify it, sbase has a straight forward version:
https://git.suckless.org/sbase/file/wc.c.html
Have a happy #SoftwareFreedomDay2024 #SFD #SoftwareFreedomDay #DFF #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #FOSS #FLOSS
