Cygwin VS Toybox (Linux command line utilities)

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Cygwin mentions (10)

• Groovy 🎷 Cheat Sheet - 01 Say "Hello" from Groovy

  Alternatively, you can use sdkman. A great tool to install your Software Development Kit. The downside is that it only works on *nix systems. So for Widnows users, you will have to use WSL or Cygwin as the official page suggests. It is really simple to use sdkman. After a successful installation, just type those commands into your *nix shell:. - Source: dev.to / 2 months ago

• How do you even get started programming in c++ on Windows?

  You could try Cygwin. I never leave home without it. Source: about 1 year ago

• What exactly IS gitbash?

  It's launching MSYS2, which is in turn based on cygwin, which is a collection of common Linux utilities built for windows and an incomplete POSIX abstraction layer. Source: over 1 year ago

• Kind of an obvious design flaw

  IME, not really? Git for Windows or MSYS2 are both pretty solid. I used Cygwin for years, but MSYS2 seems to integrate a bit more smoothly (plus MSYS uses pacman instead of Cygwin's fiddly gui for package management). Source: over 1 year ago

• WSL - Ubuntu 22.04 LTS using a ton of memory?

  Try Cygwin or Msys2, they are not running virtual machines. For Bash and Neovim only you probably don't want to run a whole virtual machine. Source: over 1 year ago

Toybox (Linux command line utilities) mentions (4)

• Linux Distributions State of Gaming - Presentation just done at the FOSDEM 2023

  Toybox, Clang/LLVM, Musl, is an obvious distro core made up of permissively-licensed components. (Busybox, as used in many distros like Alpine, is GPLv2.). Source: about 1 year ago

• Toybox: All-in-one Linux command line

  > Toybox's main goal is to make Android self-hosting by improving Android's command line utilities so it can build an installable Android Open Source Project image entirely from source under a stock Android system. -- http://landley.net/toybox/about.html. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• Toybox: All-in-one Linux command line

  README doesn't explain what it is beyond "all-in-one Linux command line". Here's the about page: http://landley.net/toybox/about.html (including comparison to busybox). And here's the list of commands currently supported: http://landley.net/toybox/status.html. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• What was the point of [ “x$var” = “xval” ]?

  For #1, you can just put #!/bin/bash at the top of the file to use Bash. Bash is still available, it’s just not the default for scripts that specify #!/bin/sh. #2 is still currently tricky, but Rob Landley (former Busybox maintainer) is working on a full bug-for-bug compatible Bash clone called toysh which will be included in an upcoming release of Toybox[1]. Once that’s released, I’m looking forward to... - Source: Hacker News / about 3 years ago