Cygwin is a software package that provides a Unix-like environment and command-line interface in Windows. It is a collection of tools, libraries, and utilities that allow users to run native Unix applications in a Windows environment. It also provides access to system calls and libraries of the underlying MS-Windows operating system, allowing programs to run on both platforms without modification. Cygwin is used to provide a Linux-like environment for Windows users, allowing them to run Linux applications on Windows operating systems. It provides a platform-independent way of compiling and running software, as well as a wide variety of UNIX tools, such as bash, grep, sed, and awk. Cygwin also provides a collection of GNU utilities, such as make, gcc, gdb, and binutils. Additionally, it provides a set of X server programs for running graphical user interfaces (GUIs) on Windows.
Forking Cygwin with a good package manager
Discontinued The project seems to be no longer developed. The latest version, 1.2.0, released in July 2015, is still available for download from GitHub
Configuration much easier than Cygwin, with most of what you will need.
Cygwin was revealed due to the shortcomings of WCP as a shell! In WCP (unlike PowerShell), the user is stuck with the execution of the unit command, and does not have the combinatorial power of the infamous shell (sh or bash).
It does not support any GNU / Unix commands.
Discontinued No activity for more than one year.
Discontinued No longer developed, the latest news is from 2014.
Cygwin is "unix-on-windows", sakura is only a terminal emulator.
Discontinued Last Released September 9, 2008
PowerShell
MinGW
MSYS2
Termux
Babun
Windows Command Prompt
BusyBox
Cooperative Linux
TCC/LE
PyCmd
Sakura
TDM-GCC
evilvte
Cash
mrxvt
Hamilton C shell
Do not offer a Unix-like environment.