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. >
