Re: Avoid CoLinux: it's buggy Crap

["Casey Boone" <ophidian_snake@hotmail.com>]

>From: "Drews, Jonathan*" <DrewsJ@cder.fda.gov>
> > But coLinux does work.  Below is a text capture from my Win2k box which
> > is running the colinux-20040429 bundle (Debian file system + TAP
> > networking).
>
>
>Robert:
>
>  It works for *you*. You cannot extrapolate your experience to be 
>normative
>of every Windows computer. The fact that the project is only 4 months old 
>is
>something that I wished you had told me. I wish you had been more honest
>about this instead of indulging in your Pentecostal style Open Source
>evangelism. Robert, the stuff is untested crap.
>


actually with the exception of the networking, it works just fine here.  
havent been able to get it to network with the xp box it is installed on.  i 
have tested it on 2 different xp boxes though, worked fine except for 
networking as i said (didnt test networking on the other box, wasnt my box 
and didnt have alot of time to play).

the fact it didnt work *for you* cannot be extrapolated to be the norm for 
every windows computer either.  works fine for me, i dont know what all the 
fuss is about.  IIRC you admitted you did not read any of the 
documentation...

wanna do shell scripts on windows? what is stopping you?  why does it 
require colinux as opposed to some other way of doing it?

so your sysadmin is a bofh, im sure that he wouldnt be opposed to cygwin, 
especially when i am pretty sure one can install it just fine without 
anything more than user rights (which if you installed the colinux tap 
driver you have to have admin rights on that machine).  or get the actual 
win32 port of various *njix utils (unxutils.sourceforge.net).  or write a 
small vbscript or jscript to do it.  there are many many options here.


Casey

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