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"H.Merijn Brand" <h.m.brand@xxxxxx.xx> writes:
> On Tue, 31 Oct 2006 17:39:58 -0800, "Aaron J. Grier" <agrier@xxxxxxxxx.xxx>
> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 05:30:34AM -0500, Peter da Silva wrote:
>> > I hate glibc. One day we're going to discover that glibc has become to
>> > Linux what cygwin is to Windows.
>>
>> what is cygwin to windows? (let the cygwin hate begin!)
>
> One way to make a windows PC at least 'a bit' useable.
> I have not found a better way so far.
Well, you sure haven't looked. Here is a nickle kid, go buy yourself a
real POSIX layer for an OS with a solid core design well capable of
running one.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=896C9688-601B-44F1-81A4-02878FF11778&displaylang=en
It even has a writeup on WikiPedia that fails to suck as much as they
usually do:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Windows_Services_for_UNIX
> With Cygwin I can now run KDE on a windows machine, use xterms and
> scp/ssh to go to *real* servers and workstations.
With SFU you can have a POSIX layer that works, with little things like
performance, integration and security.
You even get case sensitive filenames on NTFS for free. Amaze your
friends, confuse your Win32 tools, all for the price of entry!
Daniel
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