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Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 11:02:49 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Professionally produced cygwin CD?
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On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 10:34:53AM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>On Mon, 30 Aug 2004, Terrence Brannon, Scheme Hacker wrote:
>>Amazingly, an archive search for CD turned up nothing.
>>
>>I read the Cygwin webpage and saw that the last CD was 1.0 by Redhat,
>>but I want to support the Cygwin project financially and I do
>>desperately need a full install of Cygwin on my PC.
>>
>>Things will go easier with my sysadmin if I can hand him a
>>professional-looking CD and say "install this"
>>
>>Are there any popular 3rd parties doing this sort of thing?
>
>Well, I won't go as far as saying they're "popular", but ISTR someone
>offering a Cygwin CD distribution on this list sometime earlier this
>year...  Try Googling for "cygwin distribution cd site:cygwin.com" or
>something to that regard.  You might also throw a "2004" in there...
>Sorry I can't be more helpful.

However, buying a CD from a third party would hardly be a useful way to
support the cygwin project, given the definition of "third party".

You could always contact Red Hat and ask them for a support contract
for cygwin.  That comes with a supported CD.  It's not cheap, though.

cgf

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