Gow – The lightweight alternative to CygwinGow - The lightweight alternative to Cygwin Download Installer | Home Page | FAQ Introduction Gow (Gnu On Windows) is the lightweight alternative to Cygwin. It uses a convenient NSIS installer that installs over 100 extremely useful open source UNIX applications compiled as native win32 binaries. It is designed to be as small as possible, about 18 MB, as opposed to Cygwin which can run well over 1
