Having just experimented with Babun over the weekend... the package manager is a pretty big deal. It used to be that you had to re-run the Cygwin installer when

Having just experimented with Babun over the weekend... the package manager is a pretty big deal. It used to be that you had to re-run the Cygwin installer whenever you wanted to add a package. That's just silly. Outside of that, the biggest difference is it avoids Cygwin's complicated setup process. You run the installer script, it creates a ~/.babun directory, and then it just works. No need to commit to a list of packages at install time. It gives you a very reasonable set of defaults, and if you need more, you just "pact install" it. Supposedly it has a self-update mechanism that will take care of Cygwin updates. I haven't had it installed long enough to see it in action. And no, they don't explain what BLOADA is. :) It's also a little tricky to run rebaseall, since the rebaseall tool doesn't like zsh running. (The workaround, btw: "cygstart dash", then proceed with rebaseall.)