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LifeQuestioner on Oct 28, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask HN: Is Bash for Windows good enough to replace...

Nothing wrong with broadening an answer, no need to be black and white. Cygwin has been around for ages.

bitcrazed on Oct 29, 2016 [–]

There's a big difference between Cygwin and Bash on Windows though: Cygwin is a Win32 port of the GNU tools, whereas Bash on Windows is a Linux kernel emulation layer that allows you to run unmodified Linux binaries directly on Windows.

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