| I'm running Win98SE, MSYS/MinGW, and Cygwin. Reasonable *nix-compatibilish development environment, given that I'm not ready to convert this machine entirely to Linux.
I have two separate /usr/local directories. They are both transparently emulated by their respective *nix-compatibilish emulator-type thingamies. Neither one can see the other by default.
I has taken me a total of roughly 12 hours to hack my fake virtualish *nixish filesystems together to successfully build autoconf. On the plus side, I've finally successfully built autoconf. On the minus side, I've forgotten why I *needed* autoconf in the first place. Silly me :D
(please don't take this as whining, I accept full responsibility for my decision to stay with Windoze on behalf of a couple games and being too lazy to back my stuff up in order to reformat & dual-boot)
On a related note, does anyone know whether I would be able to just back up my C:\WINDOWS\Application Data\Phoenix and C:\WINDOWS\Application Data\Thunderbird and pull them back in after a reinstall? How about sharing them across a dual-boot between Windows and Linux? | 
