Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > Mike Hansen wrote: >> On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 7:08 PM, Dr. David Kirkby >> <david.kir...@onetel.net> wrote: >>> FWIW, a Google on Cywin brings up 4.8 million hits. On VirtualBox 4.2 >>> million >>> hits. Considering Cywin was released in 1995 and VirtualBox in 2007, it >>> would >>> suggest to me its a more popular tool today. >> >> VirtualBox has all the drawbacks of a virtual machine. Some of the >> main ones being that it is slow to start up, has large disk and memory >> usage, and has relatively poor integration with the host operating >> system's filesystem by default. As William said, a Cygwin version of >> Sage would be far closer to a "native" application than using it >> through VirtualBox. >> >> --Mike >> > > I can understand some of the drawbacks of VirtualBox. This computer has 8 > cores > at 3.333 GHz, 12 GB RAM and 2.5 TB disk (all mirrored). VirutalBox is not much > of a drain on the resources. > > I suppose I've always approached Cywin in the opposite direction to Windows > users. They are going to see it as a way of running Sage on a platform > (Windows) > familiar to them. I've always considered Cygwin as a rather poor Unix > environment compared to a real Unix computer. >
Ok, for me it was a way to cope with windos (typo, but I will not correct it) For the elder people among us: cygwin relates to the Whitesmiths C-compiler long ago. I could port program like 'ed' to CPM, just for the fun. Or the wish to have a UNIX-like environment on that CPM machine. Laugh :) I really wish Cygwin will give me what I want in Windows whatever version. > Perhaps that's why I see Cywgin less favorably than others. > > Dave > -- To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URL: http://www.sagemath.org
