Re: GTK, KDE, GNOME, etc and standard error

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From: Matt McLeod
Subject: Re: GTK, KDE, GNOME, etc and standard error
Date: 07:30 on 01 Nov 2006
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.)
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