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On 06/23/2009 02:54 PM, Richard Pieri wrote: > There are a couple of other options if you are stuck with a Windows =20 > host. Cygwin is my first choice for a Unix environment on Windows. =20 > Another is coLinux with Cygwin/X. > =20 Why do you prefer Cygwin or coLinux over using a virtual machine (assuming a reasonably powerful computer). Certainly, Cygwin has come a long way over the past several years as has Linux and FreeBSD. But, with KVM, Xen, VirtualBox, and VMWare available I would probably want a real OS rather than an environment, but I have not used Cygwin for a few years, and only used it on my wife's machine and in the office where all I had was Windows. One advantage of Cygwin might be that you can use it to ssh into a Linux/Unix system as an alternative to Exceed. Actually, Cygwin and other Unix/Linux environments that run under Windows could be a reasonable topic for a future meeting. Or more general topic on Unix/Linus environments for Windows, possibly including VMs. --=20 Jerry Feldman <gaf-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org> Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: 537C5846 PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB CA3B 4607 4319 537C 5846
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