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[_] What dev env for XP

AndrewGill73@gmail.com andrewgill73 at gmail.com
Tue Jun 3 13:53:21 BST 2008

Andrew,

You could try Wubi... it allows you to install and uninstall Ubuntu as
any other Windows application, in a simple and safe way
(http://wubi-installer.org/).

cheers,
Andy

On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 1:47 PM, Andy Davies <dajdavies at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2008/6/3 Andrew McGregor <andy at txm.net>:
>> 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)?
>>
>> I've got cygwin so I can happily grep away, a power tool to preview
>> the window when alt-tab'ing. I'm downloading and have promised myself
>> to give Eclipse/PDT a 'fair chance'.
>>
>> What is flavour of the month for text editing?  What else can I do to
>> make this desktop less painfull?
>>
>
> Install VMWare Player and then a Linux distro within it?
>
> Andy
>
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Andrew Gill
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