Gow - The lightweight alternative to Cygwin Download | Home Page | FAQ Author: Brent R. Matzelle ABOUT 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 ru