On Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 10:04 AM, William Park <opengeometry@yahoo.ca> wrote:
Something I (re)discovered recently...
Windows is unavoidable at work. So, you're working on Windows machine, but you need your favourite Unix tools and utilities to process some file. What do you do? So far, I found 3 solutions:
3. Cygwin -- cygwin.com
It's single directory which you can put on USB stick. That directory becomes your root filesystem, but you can access other drives through /cygdrive which acts like /mnt. This is my recent (re)discovery. I knew about it, but totally forgot.
Cygwin/X is definitely my preferred choice; I've been using it for a number of years to make Windows environments less painful to work in. <http://x.cygwin.com/>
MobaXterm is primarily a remote access tool but provides some Cygwin functionality (and an X Server) <http://mobaxterm.mobatek.net/> I still haven't gotten around to actually trying Qubes OS - a "reasonably secure" OS that combines linux & windows virtual machines - so I'm uncertain if it might apply in this context. That said, there was a mailing list thread recently discussing a live USB prototype that may be interesting to evaluate. <https://www.qubes-os.org/> <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/qubes-users/IQdCEpkooto> -- Scott Elcomb @psema4 http://www.pirateparty.ca/