On Tue, 22 Mar 2011, Andrew Berg wrote: > I found Cygwin annoying since /everything/ depends on the base library. What is annoying about that? I mean, is it something to do with speed, file size, portability? There must be something that annoys you. Maybe it annoys me too, but I don't understand the issue. > MinGW/MSYS is basically the same thing, except without that dependence. Is it portable? Maybe that would be even better than Cygwin for some of the things I do. By the way, I hate the Cygwin terminal window -- it seems to be the MS Windows command window with bash running in it. I always use an rxvt terminal in Cygwin. Mike