I've long had poor feelings about Cygwin being slow and a poor solution. I wanted something that didn't try quite so hard to completely distance itself from Wi

I've long had poor feelings about Cygwin being slow and a poor solution. I wanted something that didn't try quite so hard to completely distance itself from Windows. So, instead, I've been using MinGW's msys project. I don't think it is quite as small, but it does offer a package manager. One small thing in msys that I particularly like is that I can do thins like: cd //server/share/some/directory I never saw powershell or cygwin do that. On Solaris I can configure automount to do that which is good enough, but just working is also nice.