Les Mikesell wrote:
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
Hmm, looks like it is used to connect as an X client. Might be pretty restricted. I'm downloading it now, though.
Mike