X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2010 16:50:33 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: The need for cygwin Message-ID: <20100107215033.GB4635@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <53b627ea1001070831t71b6fc8fy62383b79b3e8fd99 AT mail DOT gmail DOT com> <4B465598 DOT 50801 AT cygwin DOT com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4B465598.50801@cygwin.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 04:43:52PM -0500, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: >On 01/07/2010 11:31 AM, Karthik Balaguru wrote: >> Hi, >> I am eager to know the need for cygwin if emulators like VirtualBox, >> Bochs IA-32 Emulator , QEMU, Vmware, Hyper-V, XenServer are able to >> provide the linux in windows ? > >Huh. Fancy that. You're right. There's no need for Cygwin anymore. >Time to shut down the project. Everybody gather up your stuff and go >home now. Chris, can you hit the switch for the web site? Ok. Done. I think we st -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple