slashdot: m$ praises unix and linux shell clis and prepares to emulate them

[CLIFFORD ILKAY]

On June 11, 2005 00:59, Walter Dnes wrote:
>   What exactly will it acomplish that Cygwin can't do today? (Longhorn
> ain't done till Cygwin won't run?).  At work, Windows XP is the official
> OS.  I do quite a bit of work with large textfiles of scientific data,
> but not enough to justify a *nix workstation of my own.  cut/sed/grep
> etc, etc, are very handy.  At one point, I was ftp'ing data to a unix
> server, working on the files under unix, and ftp'ing the results back to
> my Windows machine.  Now I just switch over to a Cygwin window, and
> pretend that I'm at home on this here linux box.  And Cygwin's bash and
> other utilities are much more familiar to me than HP-UX's versions.

Have you ever tried coLinux <http://www.colinux.org/>? It looks somewhat 
interesting.
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