Category: cygwin
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installing Cygwin – is “Desktop” a nice choice for “Local Package Directory”?!?
http://cygwin.com For each mirror site the cygwin set-up creates an entry on the chosen directory, and you really don’t want to see them on the Windows “Desktop“. I suggest using something like c:/cygwin-LPD, so you don’t see those entries constantly, and you still get reminded of them before browsing into c:/cygwin resp. c:/cygwin64.
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installing Cygwin – the “Available Download Sites” list is empty
http://cygwin.com In my case the list was empty (presumably), because it could not get discovered in the usual way, as (in that case) I was sitting behind a proxy with no direct Internet access. On cygwin’s web pages, there is a left bar showing the entry “Mirror Sites“. Take a few suitable mirror sites and…
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Xming is an implementation of the X Window System for Microsoft Windows operating systems
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xming The Xming X server is based on Cygwin/X, the X.Org Server. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cygwin/X – the X server, I had used occasionally on Windows https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Window_System I heard of Xming last night at the etengo Hamburg freelancer meet up.
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GNU Emacs for Microsoft Windows resp. Mac OS X
http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596006488 – “Learning GNU Emacs“ The quoted book points for Mac OS X and Windows implementations exclusively to these web pages, but pls regard both as outdated: http://sourceforge.net/projects/nqmacs/ http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/unix_open_source/carbonemacspackage.html Update: As of 2016-01 here are the best sites for Windows “Emacsen”: cygwin provides w32 and also X11 binaries — I am about to give them a try…