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.
Category: cygwin
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installing Cygwin – the “Available Download Sites” list is empty
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 add them manually into the field “User URL“. Your set-up will work then.
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Xming is an implementation of the X Window System for Microsoft Windows operating systems
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The quoted book points for Mac OS X and Windows implementations exclusively to these web pages, but pls regard both as outdated: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
- http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/?EmacsForWindows
- http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/windows/
- http://sourceforge.net/projects/emacs-bin/ – !!! – seems to be bleeding edge
- http://sourceforge.net/projects/emacsbinw64/ (have not tried it yet)
- http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/windows/ – a little outdated, but not too bad
- https://code.google.com/p/emacs-for-windows/ – rather outdated
As of 2016-01 here is my favourite site for Mac OS X “Emacsen”:
- http://EmacsForMacOSX.com – seems to be bleeding edge – they have RSS feeds for misc. variants