FreeNAS vs Cygwin: What are the differences?

FreeNAS: An operating system that can be installed on virtually any hardware platform. It is the simplest way to create a centralized and easily accessible place for your data. Use it with ZFS to protect, store, backup, all of your data. It is used everywhere, for the home, small business, and the enterprise; Cygwin: A way to run native Linux apps on Windows. It is a POSIX-compatible environment that runs natively on Microsoft Windows. Its goal is to allow programs of Unix-like systems to be recompiled and run natively on Windows with minimal source code modifications by providing them with the same underlying POSIX API they would expect in those systems.

FreeNAS and Cygwin can be categorized as "Operating Systems" tools.

Some of the features offered by FreeNAS are:

• File Sharing
• Web Interface
• Data Protection

On the other hand, Cygwin provides the following key features:

• A dynamic-link library
• API compatibility layer
• Color Depths

Cygwin is an open source tool with 27 GitHub stars and 6 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Cygwin's open source repository on GitHub.