X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_HELO_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4B465598.50801@cygwin.com> Date: Thu, 07 Jan 2010 16:43:52 -0500 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.21) Gecko/20090320 Remi/2.0.0.21-1.fc8.remi Lightning/0.9 Thunderbird/2.0.0.21 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Cygwin List Subject: Re: The need for cygwin References: <53b627ea1001070831t71b6fc8fy62383b79b3e8fd99@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <53b627ea1001070831t71b6fc8fy62383b79b3e8fd99@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 01/07/2010 11:31 AM, Karthik Balaguru wrote: > Hi, > I am eager to know the need for cygwin if emulators like VirtualBox, > Bochs IA-32 Emulator , QEMU, Vmware, Hyper-V, XenServer are able to > provide the linux in windows ? Huh. Fancy that. You're right. There's no need for Cygwin anymore. Time to shut down the project. Everybody gather up your stuff and go home now. Chris, can you hit the switch for the web site? Sorry, I just couldn't resist. ;-) -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _____________________________________________________________________ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple