I have depended on cygwin for years. For years my main development platform has been cygwin emacs, writing Perl and C++ and Python to be uploaded to various Linux machines and run.
I just upgraded to CYGWIN_NT-6.0. Running on Vista.
And I am plagued by instabilities. Emacs running out of resources, vfork failures.
And everything is much slower than the older version of Cygwin on same Vista machine. E.g. I may no longer be able to run git - too slow.
By the way, the reason that Cygwin is my platform is that I have been using tablet PCs since circa 1994.
ReplyDeleteI have not yet found Linux software that makes pen computer operation good enough to use.
Therefore, my main personal machine has been a Microsoft machine, originally running Windows for Pen Computing, now running Vista / Tablet PC software. With Cygwin for my UNIX side.
I have some hope that Linux machines have caught up. At least far enough to use the mouse as a pointer. Hopefully far enough to provide some handwriting recognition, if only through a comb recognizer.
Heck, I'd be happy enough to use graffito to input small amounts of text on my hypothetical Linux based tablet.