Now I do not have a lot of valid reasons why I hate Cygwin. Its actually a wonderful piece of software. It gives you workable linux environment while you continue running Windows. If you have to deal with megs and megs of logs files every other day to figure out issues in applications… you would know what a godsend gift cygwin proves to be.
But then… again.. you know, cygwin default console is real bad. After a while, you figure out that, you can rather set rxvt as your cygwin console rather than the fixed width windows command prompt. But, when you get things just as how they “should” be, that feeling is different. And cygwin fails there by not providing me the customer delight. I mean I agree that, linux is all about freedom to customize, but at the same time, one must notice that, any wildly successful product strives to provide the best out-of-box user experience. If you want to win over loads of users [the layman users not the nerds] then, you must provide users a delightful user experience.
Thats why… I finally set out for a search of an alternative to cygwin. There are other similar clones of cygwin in the market but none impressed me. Finally, as of now, this is what I am finding decent alternative to cygwin. – Install puppy linux inside the VirtualBox and you would get a nice awesome UI, linux everything right inside the windows machine.
My following post would give step by step and screen-shots based tutorial about it. Till then.. its late night for me.
Enjoy
VJ
Update: The post for step-by-step screenshot tutorial is here.
