X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 10:32:56 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: A regrettable oversight Message-ID: <20061215153255.GE6259@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <035101c72032$07894a00$a501a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> <20061215135533.GA3889@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> <20061215144842.GD3889@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> <1166196442.16409.7.camel@mercury.sprymusic> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1166196442.16409.7.camel@mercury.sprymusic> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 10:27:22AM -0500, Jean-Claude Gervais wrote: >I have to chime in here; >Originally, I became curious about Linux BECAUSE of Cygwin. >As I experimented more and more with Cygwin, I became really impressed >with how it was able to support quite a lot of Linux apps at the source >level will relatively little trouble. The trouble and care the Cygwin >developers have gone to to emulate a real *nix environment on something >as backwards as Windows is truly amazing. A feat hidden from view, like >all great software engineering, of course, but tremendous nonetheless. > >Of course digging around *nix via Cygwin ends up being so interesting >that you end up thinking things like "Why is Windows so retarded?" and >eventually the pull of Linux becomes irresistable. > >So I eventually switched to Linux, again, because of Cygwin. >I think that that might even be one if Cygwin's unstated goals. > >Thank you, devs. > >On Fri, 2006-12-15 at 09:48 -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> If Cygwin can't adapt to Microsoft innovation then maybe we should all >> either be moving to Linux or MinGW. I can't tell from the above if you fully appreciated that my tongue was superglued to the inside of my cheek when I wrote what I did but I have always considered it a goal that Cygwin should be seen as an advertisement for a much better OS - Linux. There are, however, plenty of extremely good reasons why people don't want to reformat their hard drives and install Ubuntu. So, Cygwin probably isn't going anywhere, Vista difficulties notwithstanding. 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/