[Xastir] Window version

[David Flood]

Cygwin currently supports 98 (sorta) but support for anything earlier than
W2K is in the process of being removed.  GraphicsMagick and ImageMagick
support are both broken unless you compile your own from the original
source.

VMWare Player requires W2K or later and can not use the swapfile for memory
so you have to have lots of real memory.

Virtual PC requires XP or a Pro version of Vista (it complains but sorta
works on the Home versions of Vista).

If your laptop is a Pentium and has at least 64M ram, you'd be best off
using Linux.  If you have less than 128M ram you might need an early version
of Linux to do the disk partitioning and then you can set up swap areas that
can be used by the newer versions.  Unfortunately, most distributions today
assume you have something "new" and so have almost as much installer bloat
as Microsoft.

Dave
KD7MYC

-----Original Message-----
From: xastir-bounces at xastir.org [mailto:xastir-bounces at xastir.org] On Behalf
Of Curt, WE7U
Sent: Monday, October 29, 2007 12:17

I know there are people running it currently under Windows, but I
don't know what proportion of them are running under the four
different methods, or on what class of Windows they're doing it.
The four methods:

*) Cygwin
*) VMWare Player
*) Microsoft Virtual PC
*) andLinux