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We had a party the other day at my company.

I had a guy come up to me and tell me that his team was crazy. They were working on Java with Linux. He said they were even using Cygwin.

Cygwin on Linux? I was confused.

Cygwin, I thought was a way to have emulate the Linux shell on Windows.

I attempted to clarify but I had two people in agreement that I was nuts. Then they said Cygwin is perfectly fine on Linux if you don't mind it running without the IDE. I'm like ... what IDE? Then they said that it's a good handler of source control.

I just went to the cygwin.com site and my initial definition is about right. There IS Cygwin on Red Hat. It's all about porting Linux apps to Windows. Cygwin/X apparently is doing the X Window thing on Windows.


No one would explain it to me though. I figure that at least they must have heard of my version of Cygwin.