Web site: gnuwin32.sourceforge.net Category: Others Platform: Windows License: GNU GPL Interface: CLI Wikipedia: GnuWin32 First release: 2005 GnuWin32 – provides ports of tools with a GNU or similar open source license, to modern MS-Windows (Microsoft Windows 2000 / XP / 2003 / Vista / 2008 / 7). The GnuWin project provides Win32-versions of GNU tools, … Read more
Web site: mkssoftware.com Category: Others Platform: Windows License: Proprietary Interface: CLI Wikipedia: MKS Toolkit First release: 1994 MKS Toolkit – allows you to run Unix scripts unmodified using its utilities and to migrate Unix source code unmodified to Windows using the 2700 standards-based POSIX, UNIX and X11 APIs in PTC MKS Toolkit for Enterprise Developers. … Read more
Web site: cygwin.com Category: Others Platform: Windows License: LGPL Interface: CLI Wikipedia: Cygwin First release: October 18, 1995 Cygwin – a distribution of popular GNU and other Open Source tools running on Microsoft Windows. The core part is the Cygwin library which provides the POSIX system calls and environment these programs expect. The Cygwin distribution … Read more
Web site: docs.microsoft.com/windows/wsl Category: Others Platform: Windows License: unknown (source code available) Interface: CLI Wikipedia: Windows_Subsystem_for_Linux First release: August 2, 2016 Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) – a compatibility layer for running Linux binary executables on MS Windows 10/11 and Windows Server 2019. The Windows Subsystem for Linux lets developers run a GNU/Linux environment – … Read more
Web site: support.microsoft.com/kb/308259 (not active) Category: Others Platform: Windows License: Freeware Interface: CLI Wikipedia: Microsoft_POSIX_subsystem First release: July 27, 1993 Microsoft POSIX subsystem – a compatibility layer subsystem for Windows NT which implements the POSIX.1 standard. The Portable Operating System for UNIX (POSIX) subsystem is not included with Windows XP or with Windows Server 2003. … Read more