[GRASSLIST:434] Cygwin Performance vs. Linux

[David Finlayson]

Has anyone benchmarked WinGrass against a Linux version on the same or 
similar hardware?

Background...

I have several GIS workstations that I use in my research but the top 
end machines (> 2Ghz) typically run Windows as most of the really 
expensive software I use is Windows specific.

I have two GNU/Linux machines that I use for file serving and 
experimenting as well as running Unix programs that have no good windows 
port like MB System for multi-beam sonar processing.

I recently tried Libranet on my fastest Linux machine (500 Mhz) and 
really like the distribution overall, but it has managed to seriously 
break several development packages required for building grass (like the 
tk headers of all things!? )  While I was working on this problem, I 
experimented with WinGrass.  It seems to be a little buggy right now and 
probably lags behind in developer attention relative to Linux, but 
overall quite usable.  It feels a bit slugish to me though.

My question is this: am I better off running the cygwin version of grass 
on the hot Windows machines, or running it on the slower Linux machine 
(and loosing that cool Libranet desktop in the process)?

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David Finlayson
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