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: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 16:36:17 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: MS offers "Services For Unix" free of charge Message-ID: <20040114213617.GD4088@redhat.com> Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <3D848382FB72E249812901444C6BDB1D022F4784@exchange.timesys.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3D848382FB72E249812901444C6BDB1D022F4784@exchange.timesys.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-IsSubscribed: yes Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 04:26:03PM -0500, Robb, Sam wrote: >> But beyond curiosity, there's not many reasons to install and >> use both, at least concurrently. Cygwin and SFU both address >> the same needs and Cygwin covers a wider range of tools. We'll >> see what happens though. > >One thing that Cygwin does lack, and SFU has, is an NFS client :-/ >I know that alone will probably entice me into taking a look at >SFU. It would be rather interesting to add nfs to cygwin. We could develop filesystem "plug-ins" which could be generalized for stuff like NFS, EXTFS, etc. Didn't someone say they had a free month? Perfect project. :-) cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/