On Wed, 28 Nov 2001, ami bizamcher wrote: > At 19:57 28/11/01 +0200, you wrote: > > "Hi > " > "Does any one know about a small linux distribution that can be run as an > "application on win9x (I don't mean those dists that sits on one of the win > "partitions and requiers reboot to start them) ?
> Ishai hey, > > There is Cygwin. > Cygwin is an Unix\Linux environment for using under windows. It can act as > a shell and with gcc for windows support it can also compile your linux > tools and programs. I used it once, a long time ago so idon't remember > much, but it worked great. I think the only thing that it doesn't run is X, > but i can be mistaken. (no one is perfect ;) In some ways cygwin is just another posix-compliant system. If you are used to other unix systems, you may find cygwin very like linux, as it uses GNU tools as well. It works quite well. It includes many useful programs: gcc, bash, tcsh, and most of the other useful command-line utilities. XFree can be installed seperately (and is a bit of a pain to install). And you'll also have to install some desktop: either download kde 1.1.2, or build yourself one (fvwm and icewm should compile out-of-the-tarball). Keep in mind that the default win98 console is really bad (slow, lacks a scrolled buffer, lacks a decent copy-n-paste). Use rxvt instead (it is a stand-alone when not under X) > > here is the web site link: http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/ or http://cygwin.com/ There is also something called LINE (the origin of the name is WINE). I only saw the site, and nothing more: http://line.sourceforge.net/ -- Tzafrir Cohen mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
