Cygwin

Cygwin is a Linux like environment for Windows, it has massive possibilities (such as setting up a remote GUI for a linux machine using X11-tunnelling and a X-server). When you install it there are a massive amount of packages to choose from, you can choose to install everything but this will take some time (it will have ever avoid any problem of dependencies or missing a feature you want later on), you can alternatively re-run the installer at any time to change your configuration.


Cygwins install.exe package manager and it listing it's base packages [above].