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Re: KDE/cygwin replaced my explorer.exe
by finfangfoom on Friday 20/Dec/2002, @22:37
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It seems that this place has become clogged with a bit of propagandist rhetoric. However I will respond to the original post-
My experience with using KDE on cygwin was interesting to say the least-
I would say the distribution is solid at this point with the exception of the startup scripts included. I tried it out on a P4 with a gig of DDR and a pretty hefty video card and everything ran pretty smooth. I've seen many things crash KDE on linux and on the BSD distribution however KDE on Cygwin seems to hang in there. Many uninformed/wouldbe developers think that between all the operating systems things are pretty much equal. The advantage to having an IDE to develop programs for other processors is a good reason for running KDE. Canning the OS allows distributions to be more solid. You need this especially if you are, for example, creating a cross-compiler. The MFC will not allow for this type of flexibility. If it does you probably have to pay for it and the documentation is archaic at best. I did not check out the sound yet- but I definitely will be certain to. The graphics loaded at a very impressive and high resolution. There was, and I repeat, NO CONFIGURING THE X SERVER. It just worked right out of the distribution which was downloaded via generous FTP. The web browser was a little flaky but I was able to run iexplore on top of everything anyhow. Transparency does not seem to work but it has an interesting effect(!?!) System monitoring functions do not seem to work but thats because it is an OS on top of an OS possibly(?). The device listing is excellent of course. I really like the terminal options. Asteroids was great. I think the distribution has a lot of potential. For me it may be a bit slow to replace explorer.exe on my machine however I think there is much potential in it being a great development environment. I would say that if there are any wouldbe developers out there that dream of things other than Intel and AMD processors at the very least CYGWIN is a good place to start. When you get tired of typing "cd .." over and over you can then boot up KDE. One cannot compare Bash to DOS and VI to Edit they are just different. Thats why its good to have them all. Hopefully I will be able to shorten the load up time and replace explorer.exe but I may have to finish building my dual 1900+ machine first :) |
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