2014-10-06 Today, I did this fresh Cygnus setup. This time, I wasn't so stu- pid to install almost everything (including Latex). Thus, it took minutes not hours and the required space is about 5 GB instead of 30 GB. To support this Cygnus hybrid system (and to have a much more real Unix system at hand), I created a virtual machine with Debi- an on it. This was the first time I used VMware. I don't need to complain. Well, one thing: The screen resolution. Xrandr acted a bit strange, and I couldn't find out how to fix it with open-vm- tools (haven't tried the proprietary vmware-tools). Disabling the system beep was easy: Add ``mks.noBeep="TRUE"'' to the vmx file. The network access for the virtual machine worked out of the box, but access to the host system's disk is still to set up. This part is great in Cygnus, as there is no second system: It's in- tegrated. (Maybe I could use sshfs or nfs to give the guest machine access to Cygnus' ``file system layer'' .) Used fetchmail, masqmail and mutt to handle remote mail. I'll need to work with code under control of Subversion. Well, there is probably no single reason why one should use Subversion anymore. The ability for local clones and offline repo work is so valuable that one should definitely switch to a DVCS. Although I like mercurial most, git is okay as well. I like to give git-svn a try. Maybe that solves the problem at least on the surface. In the long run, sticking to a central VCS will be a dead end. To get an overview on some code base, I like to use sloccount. Although its output is annoyingly verbose, it lists the amount of code and its language in each directory. I don't know any better starting point for discovering a new project. (Note: I don't sag that sloccount would be a sane tool. It has it's strengths but fails in other aspects.) http://marmaro.de/lue/ markus schnalke