console - This is a modified version of Console 2 for a better experience under Windows Vista/7/8 and a better visual rendering.
gow Alternatives
gow is described as 'Gow (Gnu On Windows) is the lightweight alternative to Cygwin. It uses a convenient Windows installer that installs about 130 extremely useful' and is a Compiler in the development category. There are more than 25 alternatives to gow for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, BSD, Mac and Android apps. The best gow alternative is PuTTY, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like gow are PowerShell, Cmder, Cygwin and KiTTY.
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PyCmd is a smart command prompt extension for Windows cmd.exe; its purpose is to emulate a few power features of UNIX shells (decent Tab-completion, persistent history, etc.) while remaining 100% compatible with the cmd.exe syntax.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Windows
win-bash is a Windows port of the famous GNU bash (see GNU Bash homepage).
The goal of the win-bash project is to finish the port to Windows and provide a full functional bash.exe binary for windows nt and derived systems. win-bash can be used as a input shell as well as an inte.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application types
Alerts
- Discontinued
Platforms
- Windows
Would you like to use a linux-like console on a Windows host without a lot of fuzz? Try out babun!
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application type
Alerts
- Discontinued
Platforms
- Windows
- Git
- Cygwin
- zsh
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SuperConsole is a software collection based on ConEmu, MSYS2, Mintty, Zsh, Git for Windows, grml-zsh-config, Antigen and agkozak-zsh-theme projects, customized and configured for everyday use.
TCC/LE is a complete CMD replacement, and is compatible with your existing Windows command prompt and CMD batch files, while adding thousands of new features.
Cost / License
- Freemium (Pay once)
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Windows
Shellngn is a cloud based SSH client with SFTP and Telnet support. Manage your servers anywhere you are, with a professional and feature-rich SSH and SFTP Client.
Cost / License
- Freemium (Pay once or Subscription)
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Online
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Shellngn is the most popular Web-based alternative to gow.
- Shellngn is Freemium and Proprietary
Here are some ports of common GNU utilities to native Win32. In this context, native means the executables do only depend on the Microsoft C-runtime (msvcrt.dll) and not an emulation layer like that provided by Cygwin tools.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Windows
SpeedLinux is a customized coLinux. coLinux is not a VM but it can be used in the same way. Installation of Speedlinux results in a complete LINUX System with X server running side on side with Windows on a single PC.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Windows
The Windows SDK provides tools, compilers, headers, libraries, code samples, and a new help system that developers can use to create applications that run on Microsoft Windows.
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Windows
Collection of ports to MS-Windows of GNU and Unix software packages, which either don't have precompiled Windows binaries available, or whose existing ports are buggy or broken. All the ports are built using the MinGW development environment, with or without MSYS.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Windows
DJGPP (DJ's GNU Programming Platform) is a development suite for 386+ IBM PC compatibles which supports DOS-enabled operating systems. It is guided by DJ Delorie, who began the project in 1989. It is a port of the popular GCC compiler, as well as mostly GNU utilities such as...
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