| From: | "Brett W(dot) McCoy" <bmccoy(at)chapelperilous(dot)net> |
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| To: | Lamar Owen <lamar(dot)owen(at)wgcr(dot)org> |
| Cc: | Ron Chmara <ron(at)Opus1(dot)COM>, The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>, Lincoln Yeoh <lylyeoh(at)mecomb(dot)com>, Erich <hh(at)cyberpass(dot)net>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Postgresql usage clip. |
| Date: | 2000-05-30 03:41:00 |
| Message-ID: | Pine.LNX.4.10.10005292340290.15474-100000@chapelperilous.net |
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On Mon, 29 May 2000, Lamar Owen wrote:
> > Well, you have binaries for NT, but what about home users/developers on 95?
> 98? > mySQL even does OS/2. Really.
>
> For home use/development, run either Linux or FreeBSD in another partition on
> your Win9x machine. Or, even use one of the 'WinLinux' style distributions
> that cooexist with Windows very well. You'll (and PostgreSQL will) be much
> happier with a unix-like environment (which Cygwin duplicates anyway for the
> Win32 PostgreSQL server) for running the PostgreSQL server. Get VMWare and run
> Win9x in a window on your Linux partition to test Win9x apps if you must run
> Win9x.
>
> Or, port Cygwin to Win9x so that PostgreSQL can run on Win9x.
CygWin does run on Windows 9x, doesn't it? Or at least it used to!
Brett W. McCoy
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