Re: Latest Cygwin Release 5 month old...

2006-06-26 Thread Linda Walsh
Really? a 6 y/o, 800MHz Celeron w/512M, 4MB video taken out of main memory? You have alot more patience than me. -l Jim Drash wrote: I run VMWare on on just such a configuration. On 6/22/06, Linda Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Perhaps, but you are assuming one's primary Windows machine

Re: Latest Cygwin Release 5 month old...

2006-06-26 Thread Warren Young
Linda Walsh wrote: Really? a 6 y/o, 800MHz Celeron w/512M, 4MB video taken out of main memory? You have alot more patience than me. That's well over VMWare's recommended minimum configuration. I'm pretty sure the first machine I used VMware on was in roughly that same class. I was using

Re: Latest Cygwin Release 5 month old...

2006-06-26 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 02:31:38PM -0600, Warren Young wrote: Linda Walsh wrote: Really? a 6 y/o, 800MHz Celeron w/512M, 4MB video taken out of main memory? You have alot more patience than me. That's well over VMWare's recommended minimum configuration. I'm pretty sure the first machine I

Re: Latest Cygwin Release 5 month old...

2006-06-23 Thread Jim Drash
I run VMWare on on just such a configuration. On 6/22/06, Linda Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Perhaps, but you are assuming one's primary Windows machine is capable of being virtually subdivided. I run windows on a laptop (external keyb, mouse, screen). While it was a good laptop new, it's

Re: Latest Cygwin Release 5 month old...

2006-06-22 Thread Linda Walsh
Perhaps, but you are assuming one's primary Windows machine is capable of being virtually subdivided. I run windows on a laptop (external keyb, mouse, screen). While it was a good laptop new, it's a bit long in tooth. Jim Drash wrote: Not everyone has a spare test machine. I can never

Re: Latest Cygwin Release 5 month old...

2006-06-21 Thread Jim Drash
Not everyone has a spare test machine. I can never remember if we are supposed to top-quote or not. But here goes: If you need a spare test machine you should look into the VMWare Player. It is free and allows you to run a Virtual Machine on your desktop. Saying: I don't have a spare machine,

RE: Latest Cygwin Release 5 month old...

2006-06-21 Thread Charli Li
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2006 4:04 PM To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Latest Cygwin Release 5 month old... Not everyone has a spare test machine. I can never remember if we are supposed to top-quote or not. But here goes: If you

Re: Latest Cygwin Release 5 month old...

2006-06-21 Thread Brian Bruns
On Wednesday, June 21, 2006 4:14 PM [EST], Charli Li wrote: VMWare player is only for *PLAYING* VMWare files. In order to set a VM up you gotta get VMWare Desktop or VMWare Server, like I have here on my box. Plus, VMs are much, much slower than normal boxes so it's not really a red herring if

Re: Latest Cygwin Release 5 month old... (gold star alert)

2006-06-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 03:24:04PM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote: Linda Walsh wrote: Nobody like to hear oh, it's fixed in the latest build, but not in the released product. Whether they like it or not doesn't change the situation at all. The fact remains that very often reported problems

Re: Latest Cygwin Release 5 month old... (gold star alert)

2006-06-20 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Tue, 20 Jun 2006, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 03:24:04PM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote: Linda Walsh wrote: Nobody like to hear oh, it's fixed in the latest build, but not in the released product. Whether they like it or not doesn't change the situation at all.

Re: Latest Cygwin Release 5 month old...

2006-06-19 Thread Linda Walsh
Brian Dessent wrote: The last release of Cygwin was 1.5.19-4 on 2006-01-20, so unless you have a time machine, a fix made on 2006-05-17 will not be included. Besides, using the latest snapshot should always be the first thing you try when encountering a problem before reporting it to the

Re: Latest Cygwin Release 5 month old...

2006-06-19 Thread Brian Dessent
Linda Walsh wrote: Nobody like to hear oh, it's fixed in the latest build, but not in the released product. Whether they like it or not doesn't change the situation at all. The fact remains that very often reported problems are fixed in snapshots, so saying try a snapshot first is a very