On Tue February 22 2005 23:32, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: > I knew if I waited long enough, someone other than myself would express > an interest in Gentoo/CygWin. Please tell me you're interested in > Gentoo/CygWin, Phillipe -- if I'm the only one who would use it, my > recommendation is that the good folks at Gentoo put it out of its > misery. :)
There's always interest when there's something that works comparatively similar to Linux on x86. It's the same deal with the /BSD stuff: not enough people capable of jumping in when so many things don't work. And few capable people willing to. :) "Wake me up when everything works and I'll try it." (average user, roughly paraphrased) What these experimental projects need are skilled programmers willing to invest a lot of time and effort. Usually it's just 2 or 3 people doing all the work... just to get a port to a minimally usable but highly imperfect state. If there were enough skilled & committed people participating and making it work, these would probably be made official at some point with little/no resistance. If it works well, it would be self-evident I think. F=ma (^^ obligatory law of motion reference in email regarding manpower) Cheers, Dylan Carlson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Public Key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x708E165F -- [email protected] mailing list
