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Gow (Gnu On Windows) is the lightweight alternative to Cygwin.

Some of the top features or benefits of gow are: Lightweight, Convenience, No Dependencies, and Portable. You can visit the info page to learn more.

Best gow Alternatives & Competitors in 2025

The best gow alternatives based on verified products, community votes, reviews and other factors.
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    Cygwin is a set of tools that provide Linux and POSIX functionality to Windows.

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    A Cygwin-derived software distro for Windows using Arch Linux's Pacman

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  3. 13

    BusyBox is a single binary that provides several stripped-down Unix tools in a single executable.

    Open Source

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  4. 17

    MinGW ("Minimalistic GNU for Windows") is a port of the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) and...

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  5. The GNU Core Utilities or coreutils is a package of GNU software containing many of the basic...

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  6. Toybox combines common Linux command line utilities together into a single BSD-licensed executable...

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  7. Terminal emulator and Linux environment for Android

    Open Source

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  8. Download WMF. Windows Management Framework contains the latest versions of PowerShell, DSC, WMI, and WinRM for older versions of Windows. PowerShell Module Browser. Search for PowerShell modules and cmdlets.

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  9. TDM-GCC is a compiler suite for Windows.

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  10. Windows Console Emulator, Far Manager plugins.

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  11. Popular free terminal application. Mostly used as an SSH client.

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  12. The project's goal is to deliver runtime, headers, and libs for developing 64 bit (x64), as...

    Open Source

    /mingw-w64-alternatives
  13. A terminal emulator for macOS that does amazing things.

    Open Source

    /iterm2-alternatives
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