Mail Archives: cygwin/1997/11/07/14:10:43
Georg Klein wrote:
>
> > Date: Wed, 05 Nov 1997 17:06:42 -0600
> > From: Darren Rauckman <raucd AT sk DOT sympatico DOT ca>
> > Reply-to: raucd AT sk DOT sympatico DOT ca
> > To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com
> > Subject: Re: philosophy question
>
> > > i don't see a conflict. My goal is simple: to take as much control
> > > as possible of NT away from microsoft and into the free software
> > > community, so that on those rare cases when I have to use NT, I
> > > don't use their miserable tools, their expensive software, or
> > > depend on their unreliable SDKs. "Embrace and extend". gnu-win32
> > > is a step toward that end. In the limit, we boot an NT kernel and
> > > run only gnu tools on top. Now that would be fun.
> >
> > That is the best thing I have heard in a long time. DOWN WITH
> > MICROSOFT!!
> >
>
> Hi,
>
> to me, there remains one simple question: why booting an NT-Kernel
> and work with gnu-tools, when you van have that much better: use, for
> example, linux, use FreeBSD and you have alle the gnu-tools you want
> without using a Microsoft OS!
>
> Georg
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Not everything about Microsoft OS (NT that is, not Nightmare95) is bad,
so to have a UNIX like shell on top provides the best of both worlds.
Also just for variety throw Linux on your system and life couldn't be
better.
Philip.
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