[Xastir] Cygwin problems

[Curt Mills]

On Tue, 7 Nov 2006, David Flood wrote:

> As an alternative to Cygwin, I've been playing with real systems under the
> VMWare player but have yet to find a distribution of Linux or BSD that is
> "lite" enough to have a small footprint but will still compile Xastir and
> related sub-programs.  So I guess that trying to work around the bugs in
> Cygwin is the only realistic option right now.

The 'lightest' install I've ever done was a Slackware installation.
Back then Slackware used *.tgz files for everything, and I could
pick and chooses individual packages quite easily after I installed
the "A" set of disks.

The 2nd lightest was probably ZipSlack, also from the Slackware
distribution.  This was a complete text-based Linux development
environment that fit in 100MB.  I then added a few packages from the
'x' packages and had X11 running.

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