Talk:Cygwin
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Platforms
Article says cygwin works on 95/98 and 2000/nt but how about xp? official site doesn't mention it. --Anonymous
- 'XP' now in article. http://cygwin.com/faq.html and see 'What versions of Windows are supported?' -- Maru Dubshinki
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Installation
Could somebody give some information how easy it is to install cgywin? --HJH
- I installed it without a problem. The tutorial on their website is *very* easy to follow, and if all else fails you can ask for help on the official Cygwin IRC channel. I don't need it for much but as a rookie *nix user it was pretty smooth all around. --goatasaur
- Are you asking for information in the article? I actually thought it was kind of difficult compared to Mozilla's net-installer's. Mozilla downloads, installs, launches pretty much automatically.
- 1. Cygwin..
- Cygwin's setup and updater are in one. First you select ftp.. set local download folders (one for packages, and one for the base) then you select packages (this is the hard part.. should have just kept the defaults although I think the defaults was all.) then it downloads.
- If it runs out of disk space it may crash.
- Once you get a "download successful", you then re-run setup. (it will exit.)
- It then installs the packages, puts an icon on your desktop and start menu (at your option), and lauches cygwin.
- On my machine, I found the setup to be highly unstable. As a result, after searching the mailing list archives through google, I downloaded a more recent "snapshot" of setup: (the latest actually):
- www.cygwin.com/setup-snapshot
- This works perfectly, and hey setup can't have too many bugs, or be compiled into binary too often so you're fine as far as introducing problems by using the latest snapshot.
- I'm going to add some useful Cygwin tips that I always forget and have to re-learn every time I do a Cygwin install. --User:William Frantz 18:50, Apr 1, 2005 (UTC)
- Should those tips be there? This is an encyclopedia, not really a tutorial or help page. You could link to a page of tips, maybe? -- Maru Dubshinki 01:35 Sunday, April 17 2005
