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@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 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
