Donnie Berkholz wrote:
If you're looking for an X server on Windows, you might want to check out http://wiki.freedesktop.org/wiki/Xming. Basically, it's Cygwin/X minus the Cygwin. Xdeep is a quasi-commercial, unsupported, free-as-in-beer X server -- see http://www.pexus.com/ for some more info.
I have no need -- or for that matter desire -- to remove CygWin. It does 95% of the things I need Linux for. The only things I haven't been able to get it to do are things that require exotic libraries. Anything that compiles and links out of the box from open source under Cygwin will be used that way.
On that machine, my first choice is a tool that has a native Windows port. This includes, at the moment, Ethereal, Maxima, R, GVim, and a couple of others. I also have the ActiveState native Windows Perl, but I haven't used it all that much since I installed CygWin.
My second choice is CygWin. That gives me gcc and everything that will compile and link with gcc, TeXmacs, another Perl and an XTerminal. If I can't get something running on CygWin, at the moment I need to boot into Linux. The current example is getting "tcpslice" to work. For some reason, CygWin choked on one of the libraries it needed, and I had to boot over to Linux to run it.
IIRC there is a Gentoo CygWin project. I signed up for the mailing list, but I haven't heard a whole heck of a lot from them. CygWin Portage and access to the packages in the Portage tree would be a big win (pun intentional :) ) for me. Then, if "tcpslice" or something else didn't build, I could simply file a bug against "tcpslice" in the CygWin flavor of Gentoo. So ... Gentoo CygWin folks -- you have a tester :).
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