Jun 4, 2017 - Everyone should know how to setup Cygwin under Windows 7/10, however, if you do it in Windows XP/2003, it will failed.Why? 8 Steps to Install Cygwin on Windows. Cygwin provides the Linux feeling on Windows. With Cygwin, you can get a sizable Linux collection of GNU and Open Source tools including a terminal that supports POSIX interface on Windows.

Installing an SSH server on Windows 2000 or Windows XP Cygwin is a collection of free software tools originally developed by Cygnus Solutions to allow various versions of Microsoft Windows to act somewhat like a UNIX system. It is a Linux-like environment for Windows that consists of two parts - a DLL (cygwin1.dll) which acts as a Linux API emulation layer providing substantial POSIX system call functionality and a collection of tools.