Les Mikesell wrote:
On Thu, 2006-02-02 at 02:24, 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...
If you calculate that space requirement in terms of cost at current disk prices it probably wouldn't sound that bad.
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.
And right now *any* actual cost sounds bad to a laid-off engineer.
Mike