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I've been using cygwin on windows 7 for years without issue. I suggest you try updating (just run setup.exe again) and delete your config.* files, and then ./configure it again to see if you've got some faulty lib linked in...

In the past I had used my Windows PC as my development port prior to uploading to my linux server and did deal with several occurrences where "crash bugs" would arise on my windows port that did not appear on my development server. I now do all my Mud Development on my own linux box before uploading to my linux server, and I also use linux for every other aspect of computing and no longer own Windows.

Whatever you choose to do is up to use is up to you, everyone has a preference. The only reason I am spending time writing this is because: A) You don't need another box to run a version of linux on your computer and In many cases Linux is easier and more user-friendly then Windows. My wife who is NOT computer literate uses Ubuntu and refuses to touch Windows. So if those are your only reasons from not sampling a linux OS, they are not quality reasons.

FYI, you can download a copy of Ubuntu and run it off a CD or USB without installing it just to check it out.

I'll try reinstalling Cygwin again and see if it is just something faulty. But if that doesn't work... hmmm. I guess I stayed away from linux for so long because I hardly know anything about it. A friend of mine gave me the impression that I'd have a very difficult time figuring out how to do things on it. Perhaps it's time I actually look into it myself and find out if that's really the case.

Ubuntu, huh? Hmmm. Yeah, I'll take a look at that and see how it goes. I just have this laptop and want to keep windows 7 on it, but it would be cool to be able to run ubuntu or something else off of it as well.

Ubuntu installs cleanly in Windows now (does its own drive-partitioning with dual boot option). I was impressed when I tried it out for a few months. But, I went back to Windows when I bought my new laptop and haven't set it back up yet.

Oh yeah, I almost forgot to do this after all that work!

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