OpenEuphoria

Re: Source changes

• Posted by Matt Lewis <matthewwalkerlewis at gmai?.com> Jul 06, 2007
• 648 views

Gary Shingles wrote:
> 
> Either or I think.  You won't mess up your computer with VMWare, and it's
> 'unlikely'
> with CoLinux (the worst is trying to make a folder in a cofs mount, a native
> windows folder accessible from windows, that will spontaneously reboot your
> computer, not good, use sftp, or make folders in Windows, not Linux).
> 
> The VMWare route is much easier to get set up and you end up with a nice GUI
> straight away.  The advantage of CoLinux is that it is not virtualised and
> therefore
> faster (except for networking which they haven't found a faster way to do
> yet).
>  You have a better chance of working with real devices, as long as Windows
>  hasn't
> grabbed them already.

The theory is that coLinux is faster, but I've had better luck with vmware.
Plus, you don't have to install anything extra to get a good GUI with vmware.
Getting x working with coLinux is a bit of a hassle.  I used a the cygwin
x client, and it was also really slow.  VNC or something else may work a lot
better.  I've had a lot of success with NX Machine for doing remote linux
sessions, but I never tried it with coLinux.

YMMV

Matt