beau wrote:
Hi all,
Do folks really fire up, say, windows XP, then fire up cygwin, then run linux-ish X apps from cygwin? Is it much harder than anything else I've done? What I'd be most interested in is integration of browser-webmail-gpg that I had with my old setup. Is that a fairly straightforward task?
Thanks, all, btw, for giving me somthing tasty for my sigline; I'm actually in a law program, so it's quite topical, and funny (well, at least to me)
This is a college student's perspective.
I use Cygwin X when I use WinXP and need to ssh in some unix machine. I need X server to display Emacs, and a nice Xterm. From time to time, I also run Wmaker with Cygwin X, it gives a unix friendliness to coder and entertainment power of windows at the same time.
Of course, I will never run Firefox under Cygwin X when I already have it installed in Windows.
... Alan
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