> > Wow. I never realized that could be done. Tres geek points for ya. >
Thank you. After a month of research I really have deserved some geek points. :-) > > Gentoo is a free operating system based on either Linux or FreeBSD > that ... That is outdated since they started to run Gentoo on Irix, Mac, Interix ... > Linux and BSD et al. are pretty much just "Unix" (trademark and IP > arguments aside). > Also Interix has Windows kernel. So Gentoo/Windows is around since a while. Still Interix is more Unix-like than Cygwin. It was last sunday, when I manged to compile the last package from my system list. However, today I have observed that "emerge -e" draws in a few new packages that I still havn't compiled yet. I need to solve some issues for that. That was the reason for my question. Once 'emerge -e' works, I will go and publish all that stuff. Then Gentoo/Cygwin is out in the wild. > I knew you could run all the underlying stuff (bash, python, gcc, > etc.) on Cygwin, so I guess I shouldn't be too surprised that it's > technically possible to run Gentoo. I'm still a bit surprised that > anybody actually does it. I've been using Cygwin for a lot of years, > so I'd be willing to bet that installing IA32-Linux-Gentoo on a > windows-hosted VM is probably easier (though of course not quite the > same thing). I have a vision. That is a USB-stick with a LAMP stack on it. It runs on any OS (Mac, Windows, Linux). You can plug in, whereever you like and start working. Same sources, same version, same data, just different binaries. All done with the Gentoo build system. You may replace LAMP by the software of your choice. Al
