MSYS2 has three versions of emacs. Only the msys/emacs version supports term mode and other shell related features. The mingw32 and mingw64 versions only support the inconvenient shell and eshell mode.
However, the msys version does not seem to support GUI. In Cygwin it was possible to access GUI by installing an X server. Does the MSYS2 version supports X server? How to configure this version?
If you're willing to use cygwin, it now offers a cygwin version of emacs that supports a native Windows gui (emacs-w32); no need for an X-server!
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What are the Operating System Requirements for different versions of the Spyder IDE Windows Installer found at https://docs.spyder-ide.org/current/installation.html ?
(Spyder maintainer here) Our Windows installer works on Windows 10 (it probably works on Windows 8.1 too).
You can find the list of our system requirements in the section Running Spyder of our FAQ
Can someone can explain and advise whether and why one should install and use applications such as Orange or RStudio or VS Code from Anaconda vs. download and install directly/independently (as stand-alone apps)? At a minimum, what I see (as I am using RStudio and VS Code) current stable versions on the internet are (much) newer.
I am using:
conda version : 4.8.1
conda-build version : 3.18.9
python version : 3.7.4.final.0
platform : osx-64
Anaconda pre-installed a lot of packages for you, so you don't have to install them manually. Anaconda create an environment in VSCode, so when you need to use these packages, you have to start VSCode from Anaconda, or switch to conda environment.
On the other hand, when using VSCode independently, you have to install packages yourself.
is there a cross platform version of _fullpath() which is windows specific function? looking for a portable library function for this.
tried realpath() but this is supported for linux and Mac but not for windows.
I come from a Linux/Unix development background and my latest job uses a Windows XP based development environment. I find that I'm missing a lot of functionality that I got used to when working with Linux and KDE 4. Particularly the Konsole application. I noticed that there is a beta of KDE 4 with several ports of KDE applications for Windows XP/Vista/7. Does anybody here have any experience with these ports?
Konsole is not available as part of the Windows KDE port, because Windows doesn't provide the Unix "pseudo terminal" (pty) interface that terminal emulators need to communicate with the programs running in them. For that, you need Cygwin (or one of the other Unix layers for Windows, but I'm not aware of KDE ports for them). Cygwin of course also gives you all the usual Unix command line utilities.
The Cygwin distro itself does not provide KDE, but an additional package collection called Cygwin Ports does. This includes Konsole. You'll need an X server, with x.org provided by Cygwin being the obvious choice.
Note, however, that getting the X server and KDE working with Cygwin requires quite a bit more fiddling than it does with the likes of Kubuntu or OpenSuse. For something simpler, although lacking tabs, you might want to have a look at Cygwin's mintty, which is an xterm-compatible terminal with a native Windows user interface that doesn't require an X server.
is there any gui tools like gnome system monitor in solaris for monitoring processes? or is it possible to get the gnome system monitor binary pkg for solaris os ?
You don't specify which version of Solaris - recent ones include gnome-system-monitor already.
Additional gnome software for older Solaris versions may be available from various projects that make open source software packages available for Solaris, such as SunFreeware, Blastwave, and OpenCSW
The CDE desktop included in Solaris 2.6 through Solaris 10 also includes a couple of simpler process monitoring tools - sdtprocess and sdtperfmeter.
If you dont mind me asking what is the need for a gui?
the command top will give you everything you need but in a terminal?!?
anyway /usr/dt/bin/sdtperfmeter is on older releases but this WONT give you processes
gnome-system-monitor should be installed on newer releases, and this WILL give you processes.
If the gnome-system-monitor command doesn't work top will.
How about GKrellm? That is popular under the Gnome suite running on Linux.