Hi,
Yes, you are correct in a general way, but there are many programs that
absolutely won't compile under Cygwin. C-Kermit comes to mind and there
is no good reason why it shouldn't work. Other programs will compile
but are useless because Cygwin doesn't support tty/pty pairs. You don't
"run" a Linux kernel but you use it to boot the OS. Also, brltty runs
under DOS, so saying that it runs under Cygwin isn't saying much. If
any brave people want to try compiling Kermit under Cygwin, that would
be much appreciated but I've read threads from various mailing lists
saying that it won't work. It compiled perfectly under Debian Sarge.
Yes, the experience with speech leaves much to be desired because
Windows screen readers don't do console apps very well. I must add here
that I use ssh under Cygwin on an almost daily basis with no trouble at
all. One last word on Kermit. It claims to compile on any *nix OS
imaginable yet Cygwin just won't work. There are instructions for any
BSD and old Linux versions, and even DOS and Apple II versions.
Lee Maschmeyer wrote:
As I said, I use Cygwin for light tasks. And modern Cygwin will run a
rather impressive bunch of *nix programs. If there's a difference
between an emulator and a simulator that may be important to
dictionary writers, but the main thing here is that you can switch
between Unix and Windows stuff without having to reboot. If you use
brltty the experience is much closer to Linux than if you use speech.
I'm curious as to how one runs a kernel under Linux.
There are things that Cygwin won't do but there are an awful lot of
them that it will. How it compares with a virtual machine I have no idea.
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