On Thu, 2006-02-02 at 11:24, Mike McCarty wrote:
I was actually intending to investigate the context switching aspects of XP vs Linux. Installing Cygwin seems a little bit high overhead (in disc space, etc.) to me. I may have still installed a MinGW on my XP partition. That might be a way...
Oh, it's just the trouble of doing the install, then doing the uninstall, and the trouble of trying to make sure it was all gone. If I actually wanted to *use* it, it wouldn't be bad. But I don't want to drag a whole UNIX environment into my Windows environment, any more than I want to drag a whole Windows environment into my Linux environment.
Actually both of those are very desirable things to have available. The Cygwin X environment has been built so you can execute it from a CD: http://xlivecd.indiana.edu/. I don't know if they include bash in the package or not, but if not, a similar approach might work.
And right now *any* actual cost sounds bad to a laid-off engineer.
You need to find at least enough contract work to make some new toys tax-deductible .