Damnit... just when I had enough to do, you guys go and get me hooked on checking something else out. It is pretty cool though.....
Shannon On Thu, 2001-12-06 at 11:00, John Hebert wrote: > Yup, the debian-cygwin project. I'm a big fan of cygwin and have been > playing with it for about a year. Tried to configure Mutt once to use the > same mbox on both w32 and linux in a w32 partition, but got sidetracked. I > get and keep too much email... :P > > I'm also interested in seeing Jabber run under cygwin > (http://mailman.jabber.org/pipermail/jdev/2001-October/008897.html), as that > would increase the usage of Jabber (http://www.jabber.org). > > John Hebert > > -----Original Message----- > From: Adam J. Melancon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2001 10:49 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [brluglist] XFree86 on M$ Win2K > > > Bandwith is not as good as expected. I have a cable modem at home and a T1 > at work and it works good enough. I have run staroffice but it was very > slow. > > I haven't tried to compile any package manager yet into cygwin, although it > would be a cool addition. > > Is this where you got your info on building dpkg? > http://debian-cygwin.sourceforge.net/ > > Adam J. Melancon > > > ----Original Message Follows---- > > > Very cool! > > I'd like to try setting something up like this to get to my home machine > from work. What kind of performance do you get? What's your bandwidth > between the two machines? > > Also, have you tried compiling dpkg under Cygwin? I started the steps last > night at work, but ran out of time. > > John Hebert > > -----Original Message----- > From: Adam J. Melancon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2001 9:25 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [brluglist] XFree86 on M$ Win2K > > > I didn't realize that you were interested in this John. At the meeting > monday I had my laptop with me and it had cygwin/Xfree86 up and running on > it. > > Check it out, I'm using cygwin on win98 to ssh to a server and using X11 > forwarding to run programs locally. Here I'm monitoring the system using > gtop. > http://www.vermilion.lib.la.us/cygwin98.jpg > > and here are some gimp shots > http://www.vermilion.lib.la.us/gimp1.jpg > http://www.vermilion.lib.la.us/gimp2.jpg > > Adam J. Melancon > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp > > ================================================ > BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group > Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. > Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change > your subscription information. > ================================================ > ================================================ > BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group > Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. > Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change > your subscription information. > ================================================ -- __________________________________________________________________ Shannon Roddy California Institute of Technology [EMAIL PROTECTED] LIGO Livingston Observatory ph: (225)686-3106 19100 LIGO Lane fx: (225)686-7189 Livingston, LA 70754 ================================================ BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change your subscription information. ================================================
