From: Robert Oliver Date: 2006-10-27T07:07:28+09:00 Subject: Re: How do I tell when I'm on Cygwin? ------=_Part_37930_6492113.1161900435701 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline On 10/26/06, Austin Ziegler wrote: > > I don't agree. When I have to *remember* how to get to a different > drive (because Windows, unlike Unix, has separate roots), then there's > a significant impedance mismatch. When bash is, IME, 3x slower than > cmd.exe, there's a significant impedance mismatch. Bash is probably slower, but I like it better. I use bash whenever I'm on a Unix. I'm quite proficient in it (I just > spent most of the last six weeks of my time working on ksh and bash > scripts that we use at work). It doesn't work so well on Windows > because it wasn't *made* for Windows. It seems to work OK for me. Yes, you can. Why do you want to? Because I prefer UNIX tools over Windows, and Cygwin is nice when I'm stuck with Windows. Impedance mismatch. Major impedance mismatch. Cygwin is not a > solution. It's a surrender. It's saying "I'm not interested in > actually getting things to work on this platform the way they should." Cygwin lets me use UNIX tools on Windows. I call that a solution ;) It makes Windows bearable. There are times when Cygwin is the right choice. It is the absolute > *wrong* choice for anyone who needs to do software development related > to Windows. If Cygwin does what I need it to do, then its the right choice for me. I think it helps a lot of people too. I don't do any Windows development, and if I did have to, I wouldn't use Cygwin for that. -- Robert W. Oliver II President, OCS Solutions, Inc. - Web Hosting and Development http://www.ocssolutions.com/ Toll-Free Phone - 1-800-672-8415 OCS Ruby Forums - http://www.rubyforums.com/ My Blog - http://www.rwoliver.com/ ------=_Part_37930_6492113.1161900435701--