Re: [Swarm-Support] SWARM;SantaFE Stock Market

[Marcus G. Daniels]

Paul Johnson wrote:
> > What do I have to do to run the SFSM
> > Is it better to try the applications with Fedora?
> >
> >   
> Yes, that is what I do. I hate windows.
One option is to set up Fedora inside Windows using something like 
VMware server.  VMware server is available at no cost.
Or the reverse, you can set up Windows inside VMware on Linux.   Vista 
Ultimate, for example, has some leeway on the license to let you run 
several virtualized installs in addition to a direct install.   For the 
former case, (Linux in Windows) if you allocate a modest amount of RAM 
to your virtual machine, it's feasible to run with 1GB of RAM.   2GB is 
better though.

I think it is unlikely the SDG will do any work on updating Windows 
prior to updates for Vista.   Vista offers 64 bit support, but there is 
not yet any compiler support.   I've seen that work is underway, 
though.   I'm not sure how soon Cygwin will pick that up, so it might be 
only for Mingw.  Currently the Java stuff for Swarm uses Mingw instead 
of Cygwin, so one idea would be to go the rest of the way for Objective 
C users as well.