Re: cygwin (was: Excessively grandiose product names)

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From: Peter da Silva
Subject: Re: cygwin (was: Excessively grandiose product names)
Date: 17:02 on 24 Jan 2007
On Jan 24, 2007, at 10:05 AM, H.Merijn Brand wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Jan 2007 09:42:00 -0600, Peter da Silva <peter@xxxxxxx.xxx> 
> wrote:
>> I think you can still get SFU 3.5 from Microsoft.
>>
>> Just install the "Interix" component.

> If I may believe http://www.interix.com/ Interix is not *FREE*

If you want your OS free-as-in-speech you lost out as soon as you 
installed Windows. I got Interix free-as-in-beer from Microsoft, and it 
still seems to be there:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/interopmigration/unix/sfu/default.mspx

> Worse, all the useful parts have to be bought separate.

I have never purchased anything from Interop Systems. All the useful 
parts I ever need are open source and compile on Interix with minimal 
poking.

The only thing missing is an X server (it's got the client libraries), 
and X servers are fungible. There's several available for Windows, from 
prices starting as low as free, and if all else fails you can use one 
of the bundled just-enough-cygwin-to-run-XFree86 combinations. You 
don't have to hate cygwin directly at all.

You do still have to hate X11 and Win32, but I don't think there's a 
window system in the world that isn't hateful.

There's stuff above here

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