On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 3:59 PM, Abhijit Bhopatkar <[email protected]>wrote:

> > On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 8:33 PM, Arun Khan<[email protected]> wrote:
> >> Why are you limiting your self to using Cygwin?  IMO the shortest path
> >> to success is to  use the right tool for the job at hand.  In this
> >
> > Issue is I am in Germany, and trying to learn this in my extra time on
> > my official laptop. And on this I wish but not allowed to change
> > operating system.
>
> Apart from renegotiating your job terms ;) , i guess vbox should work fine.
> (by fine i mean about 100 times slower than native compile ofcourse,
> but hey it will work unlike cygwin.)
>
> You might also want to try co-linux (google pls),
> It lets you run linux kernel natively side by side windows kernel (not
> in a vm, but as a windows process with special hacks to windows kernel
> itslef).


Can try 'andLinux' as well. It nothing but co-linux packaged in a good way
and includes useful graphical (run in Xming) and non-graphical programs.
IINW, the main advantage over colinux is easy setup.

- P
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