Gow – The lightweight alternative to Cygwin
Cygwin is a fantastic system put together by people crazy and talented enough to dig deeply into both the POSIX world and the NT world. I can't recommend it highly enough. A bag of ported utilities is absolutely no substitute for something that, in effect, amounts to GNU/NT.Yes, there are some warts, but they're papered over remarkably well. Give mintty a shot: you'll never go back to conhost.