[aplusdev] Article on A+ and Linux

[Alexander Skomorokhov]

> I am not the original poster but I think I can reply to this one: yes,
> basically the problem is that none are both good and free. Except
> possibly the cygwin implementation. Alas, I tried a while ago to port A+
> to Cygwin and failed. The non-GUI stuff works almost completely (I

I was unsuccessful with even as simple stuff as Octave (Matlab clone for
Linux).

> The main issue is that it would still feel like a very foreign
> application to any Windows' user, since it would run inside a separate

Yes, that right. If run something of Linux "inside a separate window" of
Windows,
then much better way is VMWare (www.vmware.com). It is a great product
(well, hardware should be good enough). It allows you to have full featured
Linux virtual machine, which looks from a host (e.g. Windows) point of view
just as a couple of files. Sitting in this virtual machine (performance is
_the
same_ if you run this OS on this hardware normal way!) you have access to
network (LAN and Internet), host disks, printers, everything. And you may
even
use common clipboard with host. Copy from A+/Emacs in virtual Linux and
paste into MS Word in host Windows. The only exotic way for me to document
my A+ development and to print A+ code:-) (better to say :-(

Sasha.