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Re: Did anyone download the Windows 7 beta?
On Jan 11 17:03, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Jan 10 23:56, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> > I know that we don't claim to support beta versions of Windows but I did
> > manage to grab a copy of the beta iso and install it in a virtualbox
> > (http://virtualbox.org/) virtual machine for playing. The system
> > installed smoothly and boots quickly. It is fairly snappy except that I
> > swear that, after it first boots, I notice a pause running any program.
> > That disappears eventually but it still seems odd.
> >
> > Cygwin seems to run as I'd expect with one exception - I couldn't edit
> > the /etc/ssh_config file without first changing the ownership to myself
> > even when running in a privileged shell.
>
> Confirmed. Weird effect, though. I'll debug that in the next couple of
> days. This might be just a bug in the Beta, but who knows...
I just updated to the latest Cygwin from CVS and the problem disappeared :)
Corinna
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