| whatever said: . . . BTW, I hate cygwin. I just make my machine dual boot with windows/linux. I only use windows when I have too. It pretty easy to install either red hat or suse onto a windows box. I'd recommend doing that instead of using cygwin. |
Another option, assuming you have at least 1gb of RAM (less might be ok, but wouldn't recommend it), is to setup vmware server (free version), or vmware player (also free), and run Linux and Windows at the same time.
Cygwin is ok for some stuff, such as it's nice to have awk and sed, but.... not really the best for software development...








