Linux

I like using cygwin. Does anybody know how to enable sudo and other ubuntu like commands? Thanks in advance.

Cygwin is an okay teaching or porting tool, but fundamentally it's just not Linux. It's not a backdoor, it runs inside Windows, and has to do things the normal Windows way. A sudo for windows doesn't make a lot of sense when logins are graphical in nature.

There's multitudes of things about Windows which just don't fit the UNIX model and refuse to be worked around -- like the login system. And the things in Cygwin which do work, you might sometimes be surprised just how much work is necessary for some really fundamental UNIX things. Windows doesn't even have fork(), for crying out loud.

That sucks. I wish there was a ubuntu shell or something those lines. Thanks for the info.

I noticed that running cygwin is slower than running a virtual machine with linux without GUI (but maybe a little simpler and more comfortable).

jae,

Ubuntu, to my knowledge, does not have its own shell. Perhaps you just want access to bash?

I would like to get the same bash as ubuntu. With the sudo command and such.

You are perhaps confused. Ubuntu uses sudo because there is no "real" use of the superuser ID. With cygwin, you are assuming similar privileges as your windows user. You can run commands without sudo.