Originally Posted by Russell-Evans
You might be interested in CoLinux.
Thank you
Russell
There are advantages/disadvantages to each.
E.g., the nice thing about Cygwin is that it's a Win32 DLL and binaries built against it. Windows administrators can lock down usage a bit more, limiting what is installed and available in standard packages. CoLinux is virtually running a full blown Linux, and requires them to then manage Linux, which most Windows administrators do not want to do.
Everywhere I've gone where Windows desktops have been standard, I've pushed a subset of Cygwin as part of the standard Windows desktop build, to address this. CoLinux would be far more of an adoption and support issue, as would VMWare, etc... as well.
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