[clue-talk] Re: Linux auto-install DB and other stuff

[Greg Knaddison]

On 1/23/06, Matt Gushee <matt at gushee.net> wrote:
> Collins Richey wrote:
> > On 1/22/06, Greg Knaddison <greg.knaddison at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> On 1/20/06, rex evans <rexfordevans at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >>> For experimentation with Open Source
> >>> packages, MS Windows is not practical;
> >>> that is why I am thinking Linux and
> >>> (recently) Mac.
> >> As various migration projects around the world have shown, you can
> >> start going "open source" on the "upper layers" of the user
> >> environment and then once you get used to those "top layers" the
> >> switch of the rest of the system is not as hard.
> >>
> >> In less abstract terms, try out Cygwin (and it's myriad packages),
> >> OpenOffice.org, Firefox, Thunderbird, the software in the OpenCD
> >> project etc. and you can get a really good "open" experience on top of
> >> your Windows system.  Then, the transition to a Linux/BSD operating
> >> system is easier.
> >>
> >
> > Yeah. I'm not sure where Rex came up with the concept that OpenSource
> > packages are not practical on Windows. OpenOffice.org, Firefox,
> > Thunderbird, MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc. are all quite usable on Windows.
> > You don't have to go whole hog and put up Linux to get familiar with
> > these.
>
> He said experimentation ... implying, I think, programming and compiling
> various things, maybe thinking in terms of the GNU tool chain. So, sure,
> there's Cygwin and MinGW, and they are certainly not impractical, but
> they're not exactly easy either. And if you want to use 3rd-party
> libraries, you have to install them manually, since Windows doesn't have
> package management as we know it.
>

If you want to do programming/compiling and cannot figure out the
related requirements in Cygwin's net-installer, you have more problems
than whatever OS you are on.

Greg
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