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For me, Cygwin provides a nice easy linux emulation complimenting  my 
large set of laptop windows applications, which for me  is the point. 
For Linux, I log into a massive linux server where my production systems 
reside and get unlimited storage and free maintanance.  I haven't even 
explored it, but if cygwin could  provide also provide a seamless  
connection to my linux server like a mounted file system, that would be 
ideal. Maybe it does already with ssl? I haven't tried yet. Guess I 
should google on  it For that reason, I dont find Linux  useful on my 
desktop anymore.  Great job guys.

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?
>
> Sorry, I just couldn't resist. ;-)
>


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