X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,J_CHICKENPOX_64 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2009 16:17:44 +0100 From: "Vincent R." To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Vista feedback In-Reply-To: <4194a74fe2e6f91c44e93a34d6fb8550@mail.smartmobili.com> References: <4194a74fe2e6f91c44e93a34d6fb8550 AT mail DOT smartmobili DOT com> Message-ID: X-Sender: forumer AT smartmobili DOT com User-Agent: RoundCube Webmail/0.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com On Fri, 06 Feb 2009 15:42:33 +0100, "Vincent R." wrote: > Hi, > > I recently bought a new laptop and of course it was loaded with Windows > Vista(Ultimate). > So as usual I tried to install cygwin on it, I run the setup.exe, I let the > default install folder > and then I need to choose packages. > First I was surprised because I couldn't find subversion, so I quit setup > and restart it but this time > with another mirror and then I was able to find subversion but when I try > to install it, setup crash. > So since I was motivated I try it again but this time, withe the first > mirror and this time subversion > was available!!! Anyway I told me it might be some network issues so I keep > on installing. > > After a few minutes I realized I forget to install emacs, so I run setup, > install it with mintty as well > and then I enter emacs on prompt. this time emacs.exe crash and I am > proposed to debug it. > > So my question is : does cygwin have some known issues with Vista ? > Of course I can use vim for instance but I find it annoying... > > Ok finally I got my answers, I am cross-compiling and everything is so SLOWWWWWWWW that I will have to install Windows XP ... Is it because of the couple laptop(Dell XPS M1530)/Vista or does it come from Vista itself ? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/