[Xastir] Re: Xastir on Windows

Curt Mills, WE7U hacker at tc.fluke.com
Tue May 20 13:03:36 EDT 2003


On Mon, 19 May 2003, Jack Twilley wrote:

> Just don't forget that other people have
> other requirements -- the ham that runs xastir under Cygwin may have
> to share a computer with his XYL who uses AOL, for instance, or with
> their children who use educational software designed for the Windows
> platform.  For those people, running under Cygwin allows them to taste
> the wonder of Unix and of xastir, and they should be encouraged, not
> discouraged, to continue to use what works best for them.

Very well put Jack!

Of course there's always VMWare as well...


> Jack.
> (administering FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Win98, WinME and XP Home at home.)

I think you need to standardize bud!  ;-)

Maybe we should have all of our OS's in our .sig's?

Curt.  SysAdmin.
Linux/Win95 (Home)
Linux/Solaris/WinNT/Win2000 (Work)
Linux/Win95/Win98 (SAR)

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Curt Mills, WE7U                    hacker_NO_SPAM_ at tc.fluke.com
Senior Methods Engineer/SysAdmin
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