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Powershell integration. Cygwin SSH drops you into a bash prompt running on the Windows box. Powershell is much more deeply integrated with Windows, and is more

Powershell integration. Cygwin SSH drops you into a bash prompt running on the Windows box. Powershell is much more deeply integrated with Windows, and is more useful for actual system administration (e.g. configuring IIS, SQL Server, etc) than Cygwin's bash.

EvanAnderson 11y ago
What "integration" are you seeing? It looks to me like they're just dumping you out to a CMD.EXE instance and leaving it up to you if you want to run Powershell. It's nice to see MSFT embracing SSH and all, but this is nothing that we haven't already been able to do for going on 10 years (likely longer) w/ OpenSSH on Win32.
- Sanddancer 11y ago
  This is just a very early step one in their roadmap [1]. The deeper integration is in the next few steps in their development plan. [1] http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2015/10/19/openssh-for-windows-update.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2015/10/19/openss...
mikemaccana 11y ago
Asides from being an actual Windows app as you mentioned, it's also a current OpenSSH codebase.
- 0x0 11y ago
  But cygwin seems to have v7.1 too. Is it "just" a build that doesn't depend on cygwin.dll? (Although I can appreciate that's probably a nontrivial porting job). Genuinely curious about what's new here.
  - Sanddancer 11y ago
    It's an early alpha build. This is "just" getting to a point where they're working on a modern codebase. MS has said that they're going to add more functionality as they develop this into a much more useful admin tool.