Re: Postgresql usage clip.

On Mon, 29 May 2000, Ron Chmara wrote:
> The Hermit Hacker wrote:
> > Huh?  You caught my eye on this one ... what platform are we missing? :(

> 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.

However, the point is taken -- MySQL does Win9x.  We don't.

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Lamar Owen
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