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From: michael AT weiser DOT saale-net DOT de (Michael Weiser)
Subject: Re: Yet another GNU-Win32 website...
8 Aug 1998 11:34:28 -0700 :
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To: Jeff Sturm <jsturm AT sigma6 DOT com>
Cc: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com

Hi Jeff,

You wrote:

>Why doesn't someone build a distribution of cygwin32 configured with
>all the goodies, updates, egcs, X11, etc?  There are several people at
>my organization who downloaded cygwin32 independently, and I can
>guarantee they don't know how powerful this software is.  A polished,
>quick-to-install distribution would knock their socks off... personally
>I'd jump at the chance if I were a CD maker.
I think that's a really great idea. Perhaps we could merge this
approach with the tendencies to build rpm-packages for cygwin32 and
have a installation program like linux-distributions?

bye

Michael
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