[Tfug] keeping the FOSS spirit alive on a windows box

[Jeff Breadner]

>> Cygwin is a lifesaver for me...  gives you full shells, compilers,
>> etc., and lets you do stuff like run sshd and rsync on a windows
>> machine, to back it up
>>     
>
> I have Cygwin too. But you have to try out andLinux if you want all
> the graphical tools like kate/amarok. Plus the fonts look nicer in
> Konsole. You can run apt-get inside of it and basically have the
> latest and greatest of everything. By default the andLinux installer
> runs Ubuntu gutsy, but upgrading to hoary wasn't a problem. I haven't
> tried upgrading to Ibex though because of the KDE 4.x being default.
> Prefer to sick with 3.5x for the time being.
>
> Ranjan
>
>   

Can you just run VMware or similar in full screen, on top of Windows?  I
started doing that at my work, then eventually started having Windows
run in the virtual environment instead, and I've managed to get away
with it so far.

cheers
  Jeff