linux on a windows box

[Tony Baechler]

Going back to my previous message, why do you need access to Windows at 
the same time? If it was me, I would either set up a multiboot since XP 
includes a boot manager anyway or use a live CD. I'm surprised that you 
find Cygwin slow on XP. It's not lightning fast for me but on XP it's 
not too bad. Do you have a more powerful desktop that you could use for 
Cygwin? I know it seems obvious but have you upgraded to the latest 
Cygwin version? What about MinGW? http://www.mingw.org/

alex wallis wrote:
> My problem is I don't have resources to run vmware, and i'm really wanting 
> the linux setup, because I use an OS on my mp3 player called rockbox, and at 
> the moment i use cygwin to compile it which is very slow. If i could find a 
> solution that was very fast and didn't take up loads of resources I would 
> like to be a machine they use to do there builds each time the project gets 
> upgraded.
> But at the moment so far as I can see, the only way I can do it and at the 
> same time still have access to windows would be to use vmware which is a 
> serious resource muncher. And I just couldn't do it. I thought colinux 
> looked a good option, so if anyone has any other ideas that are less 
> resource intensive than vmware i'd be interested.
>