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52 changes: 30 additions & 22 deletions ReadMe.md
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Gow - The lightweight alternative to Cygwin
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**[Download](https://github.com/bmatzelle/gow/releases)** |
[Home Page](http://wiki.github.com/bmatzelle/gow/) |
[FAQ](http://wiki.github.com/bmatzelle/gow/faq)

Author: Brent R. Matzelle
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Gow
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<h2 align="center">
The Lightweight Alternative to Cygwin
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<h4 align="center">

[Download](https://github.com/bmatzelle/gow/releases/latest "Find the latest release here") | [Gow Wiki (Home Page)](http://github.com/bmatzelle/gow/wiki "Read the Gow wiki for more details") | [FAQ](http://github.com/bmatzelle/gow/wiki/faq "Find answers to the most common Gow-related questions")
<br><br>Author: Brent R. Matzelle<br><br>
<img src="https://github.com/poa00/gow/assets/134162878/b4f4c7b4-bdb3-4c84-a7d9-93eddd8e46a3" height=300px width=auto>
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ABOUT
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<div align="justify">

<strong>Gow</strong> (<strong><ins>G</ins></strong>nu <strong><ins>O</ins></strong>n <strong><ins>W</ins></strong>indows) is the lightweight alternative to Cygwin. Gow's installer makes 130 extremely useful
open source UNIX applications (compiled as native Win32 binaries) conveniently available for immediate use on your Windows system. It is designed to be as small as possible, only ~10 MB. in contrast to Cygwin
which can easily exceed 100 MB depending upon options.
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Gow (Gnu On Windows) is the lightweight alternative to Cygwin. It uses a
convenient Windows installer that installs about 130 extremely useful
open source UNIX applications compiled as native win32 binaries. It is
designed to be as small as possible, about 10 MB, as opposed to Cygwin
which can run well over 100 MB depending upon options.
TESTIMONIALS
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Here are a couple quotes from happy Gow users:

> "Gow is one of the few things that makes Windows bearable/usable"
<br>

> "I use Gow constantly. It's awesome."
>**"Gow is one of the few things that makes Windows bearable/usable"**
>
> **"I use Gow constantly. It's awesome."**
>
>**"I just wanted to let you know that the GOW Suite is simply great - it is far lighter than the Cygwin tool, and is extremely useful."**

> "I just wanted to let you know that the GOW Suite is simply great - it is
far lighter than the Cygwin tool, and is extremely useful. "

FEATURES & BENEFITS
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- Stable binaries: All commands are kept up to date but also as stable as
possible.


OTHER LINKS
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- [Release Notes](http://wiki.github.com/bmatzelle/gow/change_log)
- [Release Notes](http://github.com/bmatzelle/gow/wiki/change_log)
- [Contributing](https://github.com/bmatzelle/gow/wiki/contributing)
- [Executables list](http://wiki.github.com/bmatzelle/gow/executables_list)
- [Executables list](https://github.com/bmatzelle/gow/wiki/executables_list)
- [Unix command reference](http://www.pixelbeat.org/cmdline.html)

FEEDBACK
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