Sorry for starting a new thread in this topic. Actually, I don't know how far people have gone in this thread.
Well, I heard someone calling upon Cygwin, hence I'm here. This mail is intended for people who want Linux on Win2k only for development kinda thing, otherwise you can use VMWare to install the complete Linux inside Win2k. Mind you, even though VMWare create a swap file for Linux filesystem, it is damn fast as compared to Linux on FAT32.
Ok, regarding the development kinda thing : Currently there are at least 3 active projects which are targeted at porting GNU utils on Windows.
1. Cygwin : A project by RedHat Inc. - The only drawbacks are huge size & needs to be installed online(I guess) Otherwise a good piece of software. Allows creation of DLLs as well. www.sources.redhat.com/cygwin
2. MingW : This project is currently unmaintained as far as GNU compliance goes - started out with GNU compliance. This is now part of a project called BloodShed Compilers - again free. www.mingw.org, google for Bloodshed
And my favourite : 3. DJGPP : This is a full-fledged suite of GNU Utils including different shells, compilers, E-Macs, binutis, filutils etc. This project is maintained by a guy named DJ Delorie & others. Very good in all respects & actively maintained. Though the size of the project is large about 200 MB - including all additional libraries like ALLEGRO - A Low - LEvel Game ROutine for game development etc, it is distributed as small parts in form of zips. This is an Open Source project, so can get the source code if anyone wants. I use it on Win2k at home - without any problems. It uses COFF with MS-DOS stub (header) added. If anyone is interested, check out the site : www.delorie.com/djgpp
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Currently there are at least 3 active projects which are targeted at porting GNU utils on Windows.
add to these, UWIN from AT&T. Last I heard a certain Mr. Korn was working on it.
add to these, UWIN from AT&T. Last I heard a certain Mr. Korn was working on it.
Yeah, as far as I've seen/used UWIN, it comes with 2 kinds of licenses : 1. Educational License: Here you don't get any development utils like compilers and all. It is only a shell (ksh) with filutils, binutils etc. It also has most of the /dev entries, individual user security support. It is kinda small UNIX box on Windows but without development support. I've used this copy.
2. Commercial License: I don't know much about the commercial licensed copy. You can check out the site for more details. My guess is that you might get all the stuff that you need in this commercial licensed copy.
Kunal PS : Please note that UWIN on FAT32 is the slowest possible software I've ever seen, but is much more faster on NTFS. Even while installing, it gives a warning that it will be quite slow on FAT32. So, if anyone wants to use it, make sure that you have plenty of spare time or you install it on NTFS.
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