Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 10:42:06 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: name: GNU/cygwin system Message-ID: <20020521144206.GA16046@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20020517075122.UWTH25565.oe-ismta2.bizmailsrvcs.net@SMITH-MICHAEL.openwave.com> <20020517164815.GK22415@redhat.com> <20020521053722.PIZS18164.oe-ismta1.bizmailsrvcs.net@SMITH-MICHAEL.openwave.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020521053722.PIZS18164.oe-ismta1.bizmailsrvcs.net@SMITH-MICHAEL.openwave.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23.1i On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 12:37:22AM -0500, Michael Smith wrote: >I don't what can be done to raise more awareness about Cygwin -- >especially about the availability of packages; but in part, I guess >that more people should -- when, on mailing lists or websites, they're >pointing out that certain applications are available as Linux >packages -- take the time to check to see whether particular packages >are available for Cygwin, and acknowledge when they are. You're working from an assumption that cygwin is an unknown project. It is currently the most popular project on sources.redhat.com, so I don't think it is suffering too badly from lack of awareness. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/