X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,T_TO_NO_BRKTS_FREEMAIL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2010 13:40:50 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Cygwin instabilities From: Al To: cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 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 >> What are the reasons? Will this be better with Windows 7? Can Cygwin >> become "server stable"? > > Windows 7 was not better for me. More system DLL's and footprint, much > more rebase problems. > Sometimes I can only stop MSIE and MS Outlook to continue to work in > my mintty shells. :-( I always thought Vista was the ugly prototype and Windows 7 would become the lean new system, that brings back the fun. No, that brings the fun. There was never much fun in Windows, although I personally like the mere surface of Vista. > > "Server stable" in ISP terms of course not. It's still just Windows, > with all its known weaknesses. > But ISP's are still selling and using windows servers. Yes, in terms of ISP. It's not the Desktop users complaints. As a developer I can react immediatly, if something goes wrong. The admins can't. http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Prefix/Cygwin I have done much progress with the evaluation of the Prefix bootstrapping process meanwhile. That was 4 weeks work to solve all issues. In a few days I will put that all into one big script. Then I will see, if the whole process will go through over night or where instabilities will occur. In that case I will be able to report more details of instabilities. Al -- 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