Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: name: GNU/cygwin system References: <20020517075122 DOT UWTH25565 DOT oe-ismta2 DOT bizmailsrvcs DOT net AT SMITH-MICHAEL DOT openwave DOT com> <20020517164815 DOT GK22415 AT redhat DOT com> From: Michael Smith User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/21.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Lines: 62 Message-Id: <20020521053722.PIZS18164.oe-ismta1.bizmailsrvcs.net@SMITH-MICHAEL.openwave.com> Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 00:37:22 -0500 Christopher Faylor writes: > [...] > It's never been a goal of Cygwin to adhere to something like the LSB > and we already refer to the Single UNIX Specification for reference. > This is another thing that you could have gleaned from inspection > of the mailing list archives. > > Anyone who might be interested in participating in something like the > LSB is undoubtedly already aware of it. > > Respectfully, you seem rather new to the project. I wouldn't feel > comfortable with you representing it in any way. You're right of course. I just intended the LSB and name suggestions in part as suggestions to maybe help raise more awareness of Cygwin in the free software community (though I can see now that these particular suggestions weren't terrifically thoughtful ones). In hindsight, I realize that the name suggestion was pretty simple-minded (and I apologize once again for not having the courtesy to first take the time to check the list archive to see if it had already been discussed). Anyway, though I think just about everybody who's got any familiarity with the free software world at all knows that Linux packages (RPMs and Debian packages) are available for all sorts of things, I'm not sure how many are aware that: * through Cygwin, many of the same tools available as packages for Linux distributions are also available as packages for Windows (and Cygwin provides an environment for compiling and installing many others that aren't packaged yet) * Cygwin provides a sophisticated package management system that makes it easy to install and update packages I don't what can be done to raise more awareness about Cygwin -- especially about the availability of packages; but in part, I guess that more people should -- when, on mailing lists or websites, they're pointing out that certain applications are available as Linux packages -- take the time to check to see whether particular packages are available for Cygwin, and acknowledge when they are. That's what I've tried to do for the DocBook/XML/SGML packages that Jon Foster and Markus Hoenicka put together -- by adding information about them to the DocBook Wiki: http://docbook.org/wiki/moin.cgi/DocBookPackages http://docbook.org/wiki/moin.cgi/CygwinPackages About the page at the second URL: I hope I'm not using the Cygwin logo inappropriately. If I am, somebody please let me know (I couldn't find any information at the Cygwin site about use of the logo). Are there other promotional logos/buttons/banners I could/should use instead? Maybe a version of the Cygwin banner (http://cygwin.com/cygwin.jpg)? Cheers, --Mike -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/