Linux or Cygwin?

[Greg Lutz]

At 03:03 AM 10/30/98 -0500, Ahmad Alsolaim wrote:
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>I am new to Cygwin and Linux, but I have to work on some Unix based 
>software, which one should I install on my PC Cygwin or Linux?

I'm not even very familiar with Cygwin, but believe I can answer
this question definitively anyway:  Cygwin is the right choice only
for someone who is constrained to work with Microsoft operating
systems.  The GNU tools are the heart of both these alternatives,
but they co-operate *much* better with Linux.  Linux and the GNU
tools essentially grew up with each other. Linux is a mature environ-
ment for the GNU tools, Cygwin is not.  And Linux is essentially
a dialect of Unix, clear down to the kernel level.
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