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| DATE | 2004-09-04 |
| FROM | Ron Guerin
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| SUBJECT | Re: [hangout] Re: Advocacy vs. Zealotry vs. Who Cares?!?
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Billy wrote:
>On Sat, Sep 04, 2004 at 01:04:41PM -0400, Ruben Safir Secretary NYLXS wrote:
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> Xchat crashes when I just click on a button their X, Mozilla dies
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>>whenever it looks for a plugin, the gimp dies on filters, gvim dies on the
>>make button etc etc etc ....
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The xchat maintainer is trying to make the Windows version shareware.
(That plan is doomed thanks to a guy who goes by the name SilvereX, who
will continue to release unencumbered Windows builds of xchat.) It's
supposedly very difficult to build under Windows. I ran it until a
few months ago, when I beefed up my Linux boxes and for the most part
stopped using Windows. (need it still for QuickBooks, Photoshop, and
pcAnywhere). WinGIMP was abandoned for lack of interest. There are
various Windows versions of vi and vim out there that are supposed to
work well, you should look around. Ditto for Mozilla, the Windows port
works well.
I consider CygWin to be the single app that makes Windows almost usable.
I have very specific uses for it though, which are sshd, rsync, and BASH.
I now BASH script most of my (client's) cares away instead of ripping my
hair out trying to make Microsoft's products do something useful.
Nevertheless, if you're going to run Mozilla, vim, xchat, etc., get the
Windows ports, rather than trying to run the ones in CygWin. You'll be
better off in the end. Beware though, GTK will become a burning source
of irritation when you do this. GTK apps get in each other's way like
there's no tomorrow under Windows. So long as you don't upgrade the
apps too often, it's not so bad.
- Ron
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