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Subject:	Re: Windows Subsystem For Linux
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A viewpoint on this whole Windows Ubuntu Frankenstein hybrid vs Cygwin thing:

In comparison with the difficulties trying to build Geomview under 64-bit Cygwin,
then discovering the piping issues that prevent it working with modules, using
the Windows Ubuntu subsystem to install pre-existing Ubuntu packages and dependencies
turned out to be surprisingly straightforward and user friendly.

Compare the instructions on:
http://personal.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/L.Wood/software/SaVi/building-under-Windows/

and you can see why the complex build-on-Cygwin instructions are now listed last. (I also had
no problem pulling in gcc and tk-dev and building SaVi from source. Haven't yet tried with
Geomview!)

I think Cygwin's Xming will soon be the most popular Cygwin spinoff, filling the same
free Xserver role that XQuartz does on Mac OS X now that no longer ships an Xserver
with the OS, and I think we're all going to be very grateful that Xming exists.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xming

 
Lloyd Wood
http://savi.sf.net/

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