Ports users, I launched Cygwin Ports over five years ago in order to make a few Cygwin packages which I had built freely available for others to test and use. Since then, with the help of many, the repository has ballooned to over 1000 packages comprising more than 4GB of tarballs. Work on Cygwin 1.7, GNOME 2.26, KDE 4.2, and Xfce 4.6 was well underway, but I have now hit a major snag.
I regret to inform you that my computer is down and needs to be replaced. The power supply went, and as a proprietary computer (surplussed by a client a few years ago), the case and power supply are not of the standard ATX form factor. The only replacement option appears to be from the manufacturer itself, but it turns out that both the original and replacement parts are both relatively expensive and somewhat underpowered. (No wonder the original went!) I considered transplanting the computer into an old ATX case, but the case is manufactured in such a way that the motherboard cannot be extracted. So now I'm left to building from scratch. I never really knew how many people have benefited from this work over the years, except for those who have come out and said so through the list, which I really appreciate, and is all I've ever asked for, until now. I would like to thank those who donated last fall on cgf's urging after the Cygwin/X transition. Some of those funds were used for the cygwinports.org domain registration; what now remains will go towards a new computer. I need a few hundred more CAD in order to get a computer that will allow me to continue development for Cygwin 1.7 and keep up with the many packages which were available until now. Donations may be made through PayPal; go to http://cygwinports.org/ and click on the "Make A Donation" button. Thank you for your support. Yaakov Cygwin Ports ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The NEW KODAK i700 Series Scanners deliver under ANY circumstances! Your production scanning environment may not be a perfect world - but thanks to Kodak, there's a perfect scanner to get the job done! With the NEW KODAK i700 Series Scanner you'll get full speed at 300 dpi even with all image processing features enabled. http://p.sf.net/sfu/kodak-com _______________________________________________ Cygwin-ports-general mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/cygwin-ports-general
