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On Thu, 2007-12-20 at 05:58 -0800, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: |
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> I don't run Cygwin at home, but I do run it at work. I have never even |
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> attempted to use Gentoo Cygwin. Quite frankly, Cygwin is a crutch. It |
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> has no practical business use cases on a Windows server (not that there |
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> are many practical business use cases for Windows servers in general, |
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> given the license costs.) :) |
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Basically see Cygwin as a crutch too for getting Linux or Open Source |
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apps compiling within the Win32 platform. From my experience, doesn't |
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take much except fixing linking libraries, etc. Nowadays, it's probably |
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even easier as most of the fixes are already done, or there's a work |
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around for a missing lib. |
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> On a desktop, nearly all of the open source applications that I use have |
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> native Windows ports now, and some of them, for example R, actually have |
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> a *better* user interface than the original Linux version. |
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Think they just link the user interface libraries in from windows, but |
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thought they used cygwin/ming to compile the open source apps (aka for |
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porting apps). |
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> Basically, if |
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> you want a Linux desktop, you're better off installing Linux, and if you |
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> need a mixed Windows/Linux desktop, you're better off with VMware |
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> Workstation. |
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I'm mixed on this one. If you need a Windows application while running |
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Linux utilizing USB or some other peripheral, Vmware (costs $) or |
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VirtualBox (free/open source) are good choices. Otherwise, some |
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variation of Wine will probably do the trick. But basically, he's |
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correct. |
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If I'm using *any* Windows boxes, I still want all the luxuries of the |
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command line console (rxvt) with tools such as bash, wget, ping, etc. |
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Window's ping tool just plainly sucks ;-) |
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> Finally, if you are a die-hard Cygwin fan, there is Cygwin-Ports, a |
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> community that is far more active than Gentoo Cygwin. And Cygwin's |
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> package management system isn't all that bad on its own. But it ain't Linux. |
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However, i386 compiled Bash is agonizingly slow. If I plan on using |
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cygwin any length of extended time, I *will* recompile & install bash |
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utilizing "-O3 -march=pentium3". |
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Who knows, maybe I'll pickup this project this Winter if I have time for |
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a day or two. Usually I tend to spend time programming C though. |
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Looking at the Gentoo Cygwin wiki, does look like the majority of the |
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work is completed. :-) |
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Roger |
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http://www.eskimo.com/~roger/index.html |
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