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Cygwin 

Cygwin is a large collection of GNU and Open Source tools which provide functionality similar to a Linux distribution on Windows. How awesome is that? Its like having a linux minime terminal to play with on your windows box. If youre curious about how the terminal runs and the wonderful things it does and you don't want to set up a dual boot system or if you just want to play around with a neo Linux terminal toy then Cygwin is for you.

a DLL (cygwin1.dll) which provides substantial POSIX API functionality. The Cygwin DLL currently works with all recent,  released x86 32 bit and 64 bit versions of Windows, starting with Windows XP SP3. I'm running it on my favorite Windowz version right now. Thats Windowz Se7en in case you're wondering. Its the best Windowz OS in my opinion. I will rephrase that and write its the best Windowz OS for me. I say that because there is no such thing as actual best. The best operating system is the one you know and has the most use for you. I used to think Windowz 98 was the best and I disliked WinXP. Only because I didn't know WinXP all that well and when I did get to know it, that became my favorite best.

Woweee sidetracked. Cygwin Cygwin Cygwin Cygwin project is https://cygwin.com/  A full installation at the time I wrote this is probably larger than 1 GB installed, not including the package archives themselves nor the source code.

Cygwin User's Guide at https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/cygwin-ug-net.html and an API Reference at https://cygwin.com/cygwin-api/cygwin-api.html. The individual GNU tools at http://www.fsf.org/manual/. 

(You should read GNU manuals from a local mirror, check http://www.fsf.org/server/list-mirrors.html for a list of them.)

For more info click on the FAQ - https://www.cygwin.com/faq.html

Its really very awesome once you get it up and running. If I ever need a Linux Terminal quick fix I always use Cygwin to get my fill.  Here is the packages that you can use with Cygwin.

Cygwin Package List - https://www.cygwin.com/cygwin/packages/

I used SSH in Cygwin. I was surfing the interweb and came across some free shell servers on this website. http://www.openshells.net/ I thought I want a free shell to play with. I tried to telnet into the SSH server but that doesn't work so I remembered I had Cygwin installed Yipeee! It didn't go how I wanted it to because sometimes that happens.

Cygwin~  <-- this is not at all based on reality. I replaced the terminal name. I was having login issues, lo and behold my retardation is up next:

Cygwin~

$ whereis ssh

ssh: /usr/bin/ssh.exe /usr/share/man/man1/ssh.1.gz

 Cygwin~

$ ls

hydra-8.0

 Cygwin~

$ ssh -w openshells.net signup wanker66

Bad tun device 'openshells.net'

 Cygwin~

$ ssh -w openshells.net

Bad tun device 'openshells.net'

 Cygwin~

$ ssh openshells.net -w signup wanker66

Bad tun device 'signup'

At this point I thought I'm not getting anywhere so I will do a traceroute to give me the feeling of accomplishment.

 Cygwin~

$ tracert openshells.net

Tracing route to openshells.net [166.78.148.26]

over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1    <1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  192.168.0.1

  2     *        *        *     Request timed out.

  3    11 ms    10 ms    10 ms  rd3bb-tge0-1-0-1.fu.interweb.com [005.055.055.055]

  4    17 ms    16 ms    15 ms  rc5wt-be5.fu.fu.interweb.com [005.055.055.055]

  5    39 ms    35 ms    35 ms  rc3so-tge0-0-0-fu.interweb.com [005.055.055.055]

  6    51 ms    50 ms    49 ms  rc2nr-be10.fu.interweb.com [005.055.055.055]

  7   102 ms   100 ms   103 ms  66.055.055.055

  8   100 ms    99 ms   100 ms  66.055.055.055

  9   171 ms   177 ms   176 ms  gx-4-1-0.mpx1.xxx10.fu.mfnx.com [005.055.055.055]

 10     *        *        *     Request timed out.

 11     *        *        *     Request timed out.

 12     *        *        *     Request timed out.

 13     *        *        *     Request timed out.

 14     *        *        *     Request timed out.

 15     *        *        *     Request timed out.

 16   213 ms   219 ms   222 ms  be42.coreb.fu.interweb.com [005.055.055.055]

 17   216 ms   217 ms   214 ms  po2.coreb-fu.interweb.com [005.055.055.055]

 18   135 ms   135 ms   132 ms  aggr160a-fu.interweb.com [005.055.055.055]

 19   112 ms   115 ms   118 ms  web.openshells.net [166.78.148.26]

Trace complete.

After that I thought I should write a Blog posting about this awesome Linux flavor tool. Its useful and helpful, you should try it out. I highly recommend it. That concludes yet another Blog posting. Until next time. :)

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