Old 486 computer & external CD reader advice needed

Mike McCarty mike.mccarty at sbcglobal.net
Thu Feb 2 20:11:16 UTC 2006


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
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