[Hackathon] any OS requirements for hackathon?

Andres Loeh andres at cs.uu.nl
Fri Jul 10 03:38:41 EDT 2009


> I don't think I will have a Linux laptop available on Hackathon
> weekend, will windows be ok? I have installed a lot of Haskell
> packages but there were some that I couldn't configure to install
> because of some dependencies. I tried MSYS and Cygwin. Please let me
> know if Linux is required or strongly recommended.

No particular OS is required. It isn't even strictly required to have
your own computer. You can help other people with their projects even
without hacking yourself ... So, if you want to use a Windows laptop,
that's fine.

Cheers,
  Andres

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