UNIX emulator XP

[Radix]

Is there some software where i can practices Unix on a XP machine. Do you know any...? Vmware might be possible but it takes too much spaces...

[martijn]

You can install Cygwin (www.cygwin.com), it provides a UNIX shell on Windows (among other things).

[Radix]

You can install Cygwin (www.cygwin.com), it provides a UNIX shell on Windows (among other things).

seems complicated :rolleyes: but i'll try

[Radix]

i just want a simple tool, to learn basic unix commands & shellscripts on a xp machine.

[NeoMayhem]

Ah, OS X is nice :p

The Power of Unix, The ease of the Macintosh....

[pagal]

Radix: cygwin would probably the best tool for you. It's not hard to setup, just download the setup.exe and run it (simple) and you'll have the next best thing to an actual *nix system (my opinion of course).

NeoMayhem: aren't you contradicting with your quote by posting in this forum? seriously, this count++ strategy is not cool. He specifically said "Unix on an XP machine". Thanks for advertisement though.

[Radix]

Radix: cygwin would probably the best tool for you. It's not hard to setup, just download the setup.exe and run it (simple) and you'll have the next best thing to an actual *nix system (my opinion of course).

NeoMayhem: aren't you contradicting with your quote by posting in this forum? seriously, this count++ strategy is not cool. He specifically said "Unix on an XP machine". Thanks for advertisement though.

thanx Pagal / Martijn ! :D

It's works very well. That will do the job i hope

[Radix]

Cygwin can't run all of the basic unix commands like 'concat' for example... did i do something wrong... ??

[Radix]

need help :( with my basic commands....

[CdCViRus]

install linux, if cygwin doesnt do what you want

[insanekiwi]

just get virtual pc and install some linux distro. thats what i did to get into linux.

[Japlabot]

virtual pc or vmware

[neofeed]

well I'm working most the time with linux.

Currently I got windows running and *umg* it sucks... ( LAGs all over the place )

I have vmware running my linux and use Cygwin to start an Xserver to connect to my

linux I've running in VMWare. ( Because I need my linux for office stuff, and windows only for Games ).

Learning Linux is as describn here, done by cygwin, vmware or any other working pc emulator.

OSX is nice but doesn't really help on learning linux.

Easiest way Is probably to download a trial version of a pc emulator and Start Knoppix within.

Or Gnoppix to have a more Gnome centric Knoppix.

This will though give you an ability to learn GNU, ( yes, Linux is the kernel, GNU are the linux system tools ).

kindest regards,

neofeed

[Skyfrog]

I started out just dual booting Linux and Windows, but later on I found an old AT&T computer with UNIX System V and a WYSE monochrome VGA monitor so I started using it to learn UNIX. :)

I would imagine using Virtual PC and installing some version of Linux on it (but no window managers) would be a good way to start though.

[dougkinzinger]

Is there some software where i can practices Unix on a XP machine. Do you know any...? Vmware might be possible but it takes too much spaces...

Or, install Windows Services for Unix 3.0 (formerly Interix). Lets you run many Unix commands in Windows.

[Radix]

Or, install Windows Services for Unix 3.0 (formerly Interix). Lets you run many Unix commands in Windows.

Where can I get that??

[Argonaut]

or get a linux live cd, when you feel like practicing unix, you pop it in, and reboot..... then, you switch off, boot on again, and back to windows....

[Rudy]

Where can I get that??

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/sfu/default.asp