Precompiled Win32 Tools for Unix Users

If you're like me, you're a Unix person at heart that is forced to live in a Win32 world for some reason. Cygwin is a huge help for making Windows more productive, but sometimes it's more useful to have native tools that don't require cygwin.dll, especially when working with others that don't have Cygwin installed.

Here are some tools to help.

Common GNU Tools (incl. wget): http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/
Vim, because notepad is evil: http://www.vim.org/
Emacs, for those of the other faith: http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/windows/ntemacs.html


Some Useful Tools Not From Unix

Sysinternals always has a lot of cool stuff, like lsof for Win32: http://www.sysinternals.com/