[shanselman]

It's pretty well maintained. I run not only PowerShell and Cygwin but straight DOS and sometimes I like having, for example, baretail in the path, rather than messing with Cygwin. Also I keep the loose cmd line utils in dropbox and in the path for machines that don't have Cygwin.

[mikecaron]

Try GOW instead of cygwin... doesn't have X11, but just about handles most needs.