On Fri, 2008-07-18 at 10:39 +0200, Markus Duft wrote:
> >
> > Hmm... I don't see any limitation at the download page:
> > http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=93FF2201-325E-
> > 487F-A398-EFDE5758C47F&displaylang=en
>
> Yeah, it seems i was right, and SUA runs on any SP1 vista.
>
> >
> > I will take a try some day, even I find installing 500Mb to run
> > GentooAlt is quite overkill, compared to msys/mingw.
>
> Interix was what we where using at our company, and so I started porting
> prefix to it. Wether this is the best or not was never the discussion
> (although I feel that interix behaves more predictable (not necessarily
> better) than cygwin.
To complete that:
We used Cygwin on Win2000 in production, and it was quite stable there.
But with upcoming Windows XP and 2003, especially with more than one CPU
or Core, we encountered instabilities like 'make' dying here and there,
most likely due to hard-to-find synchronisation problems between
processes.
So we switched to Interix, which is quite stable, although doesn't have
recent GNU userland - but we already have Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, so that
was a minor problem.
We didn't try Cygwin again since, but eventually these synchronisation
issues are fixed now.
Can't say anything on MinGW, but you're invited to do the 'x86-cygwin'
or 'x86-mingw' port ;)
But don't expect the current Interix port being of much help.
HTH,
/haubi/
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Michael Haubenwallner
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