Eliot Moss, on Friday, May 17, 2019 09:16 AM, wrote... [clip] >I've been a Cygwin user for a long time, and I like it, but >another possibility here for you is WSL (Windows Subsystem >for Linux). It's a pretty easy install, and because it is >done by Microsoft and can reliably use internal interfaces, >there are ways in which it is more Linux-like -- for many >packages you can just do apt-get install and they work. In >my experience the performance is comparable to Cygwin, maybe >a touch faster (but no where near as fast for heavy forking >as running inside a Virtual Box Ubuntu virtual machine, for >example). It has its limitations, for sure, but I have found >it helpful for some things.
Thanks for this, Eliot. Yes, I do have it installed at home, but at work, we're still running Windows 7-42bit systems. ;-) So, you gotta work with what you gotta work. :-) josé -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
