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ifthanwhile
Sorry I forgot to mention this in the original question. What I am looking for is something that I can continue to write UNIX compatible scripts on, I write alot of small simple scripts at work in terminal (Mac OS X 10.5 etc.) but run Win 7 at home. I dont really need much in the way of GUI (it would be convenient but unnecessary)
Hmm. If you keep in mind its limits, Cygwin can work fairly well. It's not really UNIX, but it lets you install a BASH shell in Windows, run things mostly the same way you would in UNIX and so forth. There's some corners.
mkfifo almost never works right because windows doesn't actually have that kind of fifo.
Ubuntu doesn't come with the BASH shell, just the far more limited DASH one, so maybe Fedora? You could also try installing an OS in a virtual machine.