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[_] What dev env for XP

Amias Channer something at amias.org.uk
Tue Jun 3 12:03:33 BST 2008

On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 09:41 +0100, Andrew McGregor wrote:
> Morning.
> 
> I'm on a XP desktop - which is fine as I have been writing specs with
> Word that has changed a little since Word 2.
> 
> But soon I expect I'll have to do some development.  What can I do to
> my weenie windows box to make it dev friendly (for Linux servers)?

wubi gives you linux in windows 
http://wubi-installer.org/


> What is flavour of the month for text editing?  What else can I do to
> make this desktop less painfull?

install ubuntu properly and use open office instead of word , it just
works.

Toodle-pip
Amias
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