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From: "Ralf Habacker" <Ralf DOT Habacker AT freenet DOT de>
To: "cygwin" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: linux binaries
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 22:56:22 +0200
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> Not with cygwin, perhaps you are looking for http://line.sourceforge.net/
>
... however line uses cygwin. It emulates the linux system call interface using
a system driver and redirects the system calls to the cygwin1.dll.

Some month ago I've investigated some time to try out while starting the kde 2
port and got running some linux apps and some x applications like xserver,
xclock, xterm from a suse linux 7.1 distribution, but is was very very slow.

Though this seems to me as an interesting idea, because if such an interface (of
course more performant) would be a part of cygwin, one can install binary rpm's
from a redhat or suse or other distribution cd and woulb be able to run it
directly.

Ralf








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