On 11/1/06, Peter da Silva <pe...@taronga.com> wrote:
> The only "safe" use I can find for Cygwin which is better than the
> alternative is for running an rsyncd to use for backups.  And even
> then it interacts with Windows in ways which mean you can't run any
> other Cygwin-based apps unless they link to exactly the same shonky
> old version of the Cygwin DLL.  Hate hate hate.

Interix.

I've got an rsyncd binary that works, I don't really care beyond that.
I'm not using the wannabe-UNIX environment for anything else anyway.

> (gradually moving from OS X to XP for work thanks to the number of
> dumb host-management tools that don't work on a Mac.)

Parallels.

G5 iMac, got a spare Opteron workstation sitting around but can't get
money for a new machine.

Matt

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