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 . -- Les Mikesell lesmikesll@xxxxxxxxx
