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On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 10:31:58PM -0700, Paul Newell wrote:
> "Wow!  Zing!" ???
>
> Hum ...
>
>I would think a simple "yes, understanding Unix/Linux before dealing
>with Cygwin" would have been a bit more professional ..  or, probably
>more to the point, encouraging one to pursue learning Unix/Linux.

think "Wow! Zing!" was not anyone trying to be professional or
encouraging.  I very much do not care what version of Linux someone uses
and do not care if someone learns Unix.  I do think that people should
spend a modicum of time familiarizing themselves with something before
offering criticisms, suggestions, or advice, however.  If they can't be
bothered to do that, and want to lecture or criticize, they should be
prepared not to be taken very seriously.

Oh and FYI, this isn't paid support and no one here has to make any
effort whatsoever to be "professional".

>Regarding his comment of Ubuntu being "newbie-friendly", I live in a
>RH/Fedora world and I was advised by Linux folks I respect to not try
>to bring my own system up under Ubuntu as it would confuse me since I
>am a programmer and not a sysAdmin guru.  I'm not advocating RH/Fedora,
>but flavors on Linux are important and following this post gives me the
>sense that Cygwin is RH based (underscored by
>http://www.redhat.com/software/cygwin/).  Hence, that might be a better
>model towards his understanding Linux and then Cygwin.

You're wrong.  You're using software from http://cygwin.com/ .  It is not
"RH based" in any way.  I use Ubuntu and Gentoo on the systems where I
develop Cygwin.  Some package developers possibly don't have any Linux
system whatsoever.

As far as actual code in Cygwin is concerned, you could make the case that
if Cygwin is "based" on anything it would be FreeBSD, not Linux.

You seem to be missing the point that the only reason the OP downloaded
Cygwin was to install Ubuntu.

>(the person who might be referred to in cgf's "Hmm.  Just got a similar
>question on irc a while ago.Cygwin doesn't use : or \." (23jun08, same
>thread) which may be fundamental but still a necessary learning
>experience by doing wrong and being corrected ...  twice)

Your confusion about /cygdrive was in email, not irc.  If you really
were the person who was asking on irc that would qualify as being
confused four times since I had to repeat myself there at least twice.

cgf

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