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: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 11:02:49 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Professionally produced cygwin CD? Message-ID: <20040830150249.GH8900@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <4132F7FC.80102@hcoop.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 10:34:53AM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >On Mon, 30 Aug 2004, Terrence Brannon, Scheme Hacker wrote: >>Amazingly, an archive search for CD turned up nothing. >> >>I read the Cygwin webpage and saw that the last CD was 1.0 by Redhat, >>but I want to support the Cygwin project financially and I do >>desperately need a full install of Cygwin on my PC. >> >>Things will go easier with my sysadmin if I can hand him a >>professional-looking CD and say "install this" >> >>Are there any popular 3rd parties doing this sort of thing? > >Well, I won't go as far as saying they're "popular", but ISTR someone >offering a Cygwin CD distribution on this list sometime earlier this >year... Try Googling for "cygwin distribution cd site:cygwin.com" or >something to that regard. You might also throw a "2004" in there... >Sorry I can't be more helpful. However, buying a CD from a third party would hardly be a useful way to support the cygwin project, given the definition of "third party". You could always contact Red Hat and ask them for a support contract for cygwin. That comes with a supported CD. It's not cheap, though. 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/