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Cygwin is a POSIX emulator layer for windows, it can be very handy for running most of Linux useful tools !, I had a long struggle installing Linux on my machine because all my HDDs are dynamic! (which is a big pain in the ass, luckily Linux now support those drives) so I had to find an alternative, and that was Cygwin.
I used it to run some tools such as NS2 network emulator and SSH, I thought I’d take this a step further and run a Linux desktop on it to make it more user friendly, finding gnome libraries was a hopeless case ! so i went for KDE, and I thought sharing the experience would be useful for the fact that finding a way to do it was really annoying :S, so here you go, the steps:
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Packages are a very clever tool to make your software have true dependencies and updated, .deb packages make it easy for the package manager to maintain the database of the libraries dependencies. It was a problem for me how i can have my software downloaded from internet separated from the Ubuntu? how i can share others with my packages ? especially for whom does not have internet.It is essential to have a backup of your software for rebuilding your system. Finally i find a very nice tool to do all the job while your drinking coffee.

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