Unfortunately, some of us are still having to work with win32 only apps, so Cygwin is a welcome set of tools to do actual system level work in a UNIX environment. Although, my company is about to spring for VMWare licenses for the developers in my company!
John Hebert --- Alvaro Zuniga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am not sure that this is a good idea. What I > understood was that a > unixlke OS runs on top of windows. What is the > point? > > I suppose people could get hooked on linux/unix. NOT > > Take care, > > Alvaro Zuniga > > PS: Emulators suck for the mostpart! LOL > > Sorry, I am just > On Sat, 2002-08-17 at 18:17, John Hebert wrote: > > Ed, you are gonna have fun with Cygwin: > > http://www.cygwin.com > > > > John Hebert > > > > --- Ed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Thats what I'M all about! Except, I want to see > > > Linux running ALL OVER our > > > corporate M$ network! > > > By the way, what is Cygwin? > > > > > > Ed > > > > > > > > > At 02:57 PM 8/17/2002 -0700, you wrote: > > > >And it smacks of desperation. I heard Liz Black > > > >denegrate M$ this morning about the 22 > computers > > > for > > > >that school. The reason they are going with > Linux > > > is > > > >because M$ is auditing them for license > compliance. > > > >She was pretty pissed that M$ was picking on a > > > public > > > >school with hardly any budget. > > > > > > > >Sounds to me like M$ is rounding up the wagons > for > > > a > > > >coming battle. I think the free|OSS community > > > should > > > >take the battle to the Win32 desktop and start > > > >encouraging people to run free software like > Open > > > >Office and Mozilla. Cygwin Rules!!! :) > > > > > > > >John Hebert > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > General mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > > Do You Yahoo!? > > HotJobs - Search Thousands of New Jobs > > http://www.hotjobs.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > > General mailing list > > [email protected] > > > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search Thousands of New Jobs http://www.hotjobs.com
