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On 11/1/06, H.Merijn Brand <h.m.brand@xxxxxx.xx> wrote: > Cygwin might be far from perfect, but at least it is a *free* way > to make an unuseable machine useable. Cygwin is such a hack that it makes a marginally-usable machine unusable. If you want real xterms and KDE, run a full-screen VNC viewer on the Windows box. It's far less painful while still leaving plenty of room for hate. 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. xterm is over-rated. PuTTY is less hateful than xterm, even though it confounds expectations in similar ways. Give me PuTTY and a virtual desktop doover -- because tabbing seems beyond PuTTY -- and Windows can be a perfectly adequate sysadmin desktop. Just make sure you compartmentalise all the wacky toys you want via VMware or the like. Matt (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.)There's stuff above here
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