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On Jan 10 23:56, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> I know that we don't claim to support beta versions of Windows but I did
> manage to grab a copy of the beta iso and install it in a virtualbox
> (http://virtualbox.org/) virtual machine for playing.  The system
> installed smoothly and boots quickly.  It is fairly snappy except that I
> swear that, after it first boots, I notice a pause running any program.
> That disappears eventually but it still seems odd.
> 
> Cygwin seems to run as I'd expect with one exception - I couldn't edit
> the /etc/ssh_config file without first changing the ownership to myself
> even when running in a privileged shell.

Confirmed.  Weird effect, though.  I'll debug that in the next couple of
days.  This might be just a bug in the Beta, but who knows...


Corinna

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