Comments on: Frustrating emulations… http://coder.cl/2008/04/frustrating-emulations/ web developer & system programmer Wed, 16 May 2012 03:23:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Leo Soto http://coder.cl/2008/04/frustrating-emulations/#comment-50 Leo Soto Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:30:59 +0000 http://coder.cl/?p=17#comment-50 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. 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.

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