[Xastir] Window version

[Eric Germann]

Just a sidenote:

VMWare Server is also free and can page to swapfile on both Linux and 
Windows as the Host OS.

EKG


David Flood wrote:
> 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
>
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