POSIX layer above win32, allows Linux programs to run and be ported to Windows more easily.
Note that applications have to be recompiled against Cygwin to run - this is not like WSL that can run unmodified binaries.
Application Details:
| Developer: | RedHat, Inc. |
| URL: | https://cygwin.com/ |
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| Version | Description | Latest Rating | Latest Wine version tested | Test results | Comments |
| 1.5.x | Version 1.5 | Silver | 1.1.6 | 3 | 0 |
| 1.7.x | Version 1.7 comes with many changes | Garbage | 1.7.38 | 4 | 0 |
| 2.10.0-1 | https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-a... | Garbage | 3.9-staging | 1 | 0 |
| 2.11.0-1 | Updated: Cygwin 2.11.0-1 | Garbage | 3.16 | 1 | 0 |
| 3.1.6 | The latest version of Cygwin as of 03/08/2020 | Garbage | 5.13 | 1 | 9 |
| 3.2.x | Version 3.2 | Bronze | 6.11 | 1 | 1 |
| 3.3.3 (64-bit) | Version 3.3.3, 64-bit. | Garbage | 7.0-rc5 | 1 | 0 |
| 3.3.5 (32-bit) | The latest 32-bit version as of June 27th, 2022. | Garbage | 7.11 | 1 | 0 |
| 3.3.5 (64-bit) | The latest 64-bit version as of June 27th, 2022. | Garbage | 7.11 | 1 | 0 |
