While I’m working under Microsoft Windows, I have a few minutes to work over other projects, but everytime I get these minutes completly loosed.
On my office workstation I must run a WebLogic Server with eclipse as development environment and IIS with Microsoft Visual Studio. Both environment have heavy CPU loads and while they are waking up, I have some precious minutes.
Today I’ve tried some tasks to take advantage over the time:
- use nt-emacs to edit files remotely using ssh.
- update MiKTeX packages.
- generate LaTeX source code documentation with doxygen.
- mount a CygWin shell (why? cmd.exe sucks!!!).
All these tasks were really frustrating, everything was working with half or less results than I get under FreeBSD and Linux. The final result was many time loosed, near to one hour and the feeling of being dissatisfied…
The lesson is clear, no more trying to emulate Unix-Workalike behaviour under Windows.
I think that one hour isn’t enough to install co-Linux, or another kind of distribution…
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andLinux seems easy enough to install to give it a try :).
I can tell that I survived more than a year using coLinux (andLinux wasn’t available at that time or I wasn’t aware of it) + cygwin + 602LAN (a free-as-in-beer NATing solution for Windows) + WebDrive. Sounds messy, but once you setup all the bits, you feel like at home. Not just the shell: even moderately heavy GUI applications run fine (like emacs, TaskJuggler, XChat, GNUCash, Synaptic, …).
I’m now back to Linux as my main OS, mainly because of my Jython work: I wanted to use eclipse and have a linux environment *at the same time*. And running eclipse inside coLinux didn’t feel like a good idea.