Top 7 Most Popular Cygwin Softwares | May 2024

1. keynav

Another episode in the revolution against mouse-requisite interfaces, keynav is one more step towards impulse-driven computing. It's a piece of an on-going experiment to make pointer-driven interfaces easier and faster for users to operate. It lets you move the pointer quickly to most points on the screen with only a...... TpSort Score | 197,000,000

2. FireCMD

FireCMD command shell has features like recursive aliases, command substitution using files, HTML and CSS support, which makes it a next generation command shell. It also remembers command history and last working directory for next session. A UNIX like environment and UNIX commands are also provided using UWIN package developed...... TpSort Score | 194,000,000

3. mintty

Mintty is a terminal emulator for Cygwin that is based on code from PuTTY 0.60 by Simon Tatham and team.It can be downloaded from the main site or it can be installed through Cygwins setup.exe program, where it can be found in the Shells category. The Cygwin installer creates a...... TpSort Score | 193,000,000

4. MSYS2

DescriptionMSYS2 is an independent rewrite of MSYS, based on modern Cygwin (POSIX compatibility layer) and MinGW-w64 with the aim of better interoperability with native Windows software.The name is a contraction of Minimal SYStem 2, and aims to provide support to facilitate using the bash shell, Autotools, revision control systems and...... TpSort Score | 186,000,000

5. get_iplayer

get_iplayer is a command line utility for downloading TV and radio from BBC iPlayer .FeaturesDownloads TV and radio programmes from BBC iPlayerAllows multiple programmes to be downloaded using a single commandIndexing of most available iPlayer catch-up programmes (not iPlayer Exclusive, Red Button or BBC Three)Caching of index (default...... TpSort Score | 2,060,000

6. gow

Gow (Gnu On Windows) is the lightweight alternative to Cygwin. It uses a convenient Windows installer that installs about 130 extremely useful open source UNIX applications compiled as native win32 binaries. It is designed to be as small as possible, about 10 MB, as opposed to Cygwin which can run...... TpSort Score | 2,010,000

7. MobaXterm

MobaXterm is an enhanced terminal for Windows with an X11 server, a tabbed SSH client and several other network tools for remote computing (VNC, RDP, telnet, rlogin). MobaXterm brings all the essential Unix commands to Windows desktop, in a single portable exe file which works out of the box.MobaXterm key...... TpSort Score | 234,000