linux on a windows box

[alex wallis]

Hi. I considered minGW, and i checked out the site, but got completely 
confused and had no idea what to download or how to install it.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tony Baechler" <tony at baechler.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Monday, March 03, 2008 9:52 AM
Subject: Re: linux on a windows box


> 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.
>>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup at braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup