MSYS2
MSYS2 is a collection of tools and libraries providing you with an easy-to-use environment for building, installing and running native Windows software. It consists of a command line terminal called mintty, bash, version control systems like git and subversion, tools like tar and awk and even build systems like autotools, all based on a modified version of Cygwin. Despite some of these central parts being based on Cygwin, the main focus of MSYS2 is to provide a build environment for native Windows software and the Cygwin-using parts are kept at a minimum. MSYS2 provides up-to-date native builds for GCC, mingw-w64, CPython, CMake, Meson, OpenSSL, FFmpeg, Rust, Ruby, just to name a few. To provide easy installation of packages and a way to keep them updated it features a package management system called Pacman, which should be familiar to Arch Linux users.
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Pi Agent
Pi is a minimal terminal coding harness built to adapt to developer workflows instead of forcing developers to adapt to it. It ships with powerful defaults, but stays intentionally small and aggressively extensible, letting users customize Pi with extensions, skills, prompt templates, themes, and shareable packages from npm or git. If a team needs a command, tool, provider, workflow, or UI tweak, they can ask Pi to build it, manipulate it in place, reload, and keep going. Pi supports interactive, print/JSON, RPC, and SDK modes, making it usable as a full terminal UI, a scriptable command, a JSON event stream, or an embeddable agent harness. It works with 15+ providers and hundreds of models, including Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Azure, Bedrock, Mistral, Groq, Cerebras, xAI, Hugging Face, Kimi For Coding, MiniMax, OpenRouter, Ollama, and more, with mid-session model switching.
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Scoop
Scoop installs programs you know and love, from the command line with a minimal amount of friction. For terminal applications, Scoop creates shims, a kind of command-line shortcuts, inside the ~\scoop\shims folder, which is accessible in the PATH. For graphical applications, Scoop creates program shortcuts in a dedicated Start menu folder, called 'Scoop Apps'. This way, packages are always cleanly uninstalled and you can be sure what tools are currently in your PATH and in your Start menu.
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Midnight Commander
GNU Midnight Commander is a visual file manager, licensed under GNU General Public License and therefore qualifies as Free Software. It's a feature-rich full-screen text mode application that allows you to copy, move and delete files and whole directory trees, search for files and run commands in the subshell. Internal viewers and editors are included. Midnight Commander is based on versatile text interfaces, such as Ncurses or S-Lang, which allows it to work on a regular console, inside an X Window terminal, over SSH connections, and all kinds of remote shells. Midnight commander can be used in local console or terminal emulator in any graphical environment or via ssh because it has a Text User Interface (TUI). Mailing lists on GoogleGroups are set up to read Trac messages only and are not an appropriate place to discuss MC bugs and solutions. Feel free to report bugs, attach your patches to the tickets and review the patches that are already in there.
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