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Yes - Cygwin is essentially the GNU tools recompiled as Win32 apps using a helper library for shared code etc. Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) which underpin
by bitcrazed 11y ago
Yes - Cygwin is essentially the GNU tools recompiled as Win32 apps using a helper library for shared code etc.
Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) which underpins Ubuntu on Windows is new Windows kernel infrastructure that exposes a LINUX-compatible syscall API layer to userland and a loader that binds the two.
This means you can run real, native, unmodified Linux command-line tools directly on Windows.