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		hetman on May 14, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Babun – A new Windows shell The other thing worth looking at is the MinGW project. It's pretty easy to get started with the mingw-get package manager (there's an installer you can find here: http://www.mingw.org/wiki/Getting_Started). Once you have mintty running as your terminal emulator, and a decent shell like bash, life gets a whole lot easier. The upside is that it's fully native without Cygwin's compatibility layer. The downside is that it won't have as many ported utilities (and probably not as easy to get started with as something like Babun).

voltagex_ on May 14, 2014 [–]

http://code.google.com/p/mintty/ seems like it still uses cygwin1.dll (or whatever it's called these days). Am I missing something?

jeremyjh on May 14, 2014 | [–]

Yes, you are missing the MSYS build listed on their download page. It does not use Cygwin.

MSYS/Mingw are native ports of the GNU software tools and friends.

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