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 Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2004 14:14:11 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: A bit of history Message-ID: <20040306191411.GB17543@redhat.com> Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 06:59:30PM -0000, Dave Korn wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Hannu E K Nevalainen > >> FWIW, related to history: >> >> There is ("was" in the sense that it has been very stale for >> quite some >> time) >> a sister project to cygwin here: >> >> http://www.geekgadgets.org > > > That was the project to port the gnu environment to the old Amiga series >of computers. The site seems to be down right now but there's still plenty >of it in google's cache. I hate to be mean here but this project pretty obviously has nothing to do with cygwin. Fred Fish is a great programmer and a great guy but this is not a "sister project". It's just another project out there which tried to accomplish similar goals. Let's not start a discussion of other projects throughout the world which tried the obvious plan of porting GNU tools to a non-UNIX platform. There were enough GNU programmers employed by Cygnus that the chances are good that one would be involved and you could always infer a nebulous connection to Cygwin where none actually exists. 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/