Harold L Hunt II schrieb:
Well, I don't know about the rest of you, but since SFU comes with a
great (and free) X Server, I am throwing in the towel.
As I see it it doesn't come with a free X-Server. It comes with some
xlib's but not with the server.
There's the Starnet and the Hummingbird
On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 11:29:53AM +0100, S. L. wrote:
[...]
It would be rather interesting to add nfs to cygwin. We could develop
filesystem plug-ins which could be generalized for stuff like NFS,
EXTFS, etc.
Didn't someone say they had a free month? Perfect project. :-)
FYI:
The 3.0 version went up for the cost of the CD a few months ago so I
ordered
a copy -- was a disk hog, so eventually removed it. But few things:
It always has to have the interix subsystem proces running to do
anything.
In typical MS fashion, it setup and started demons for all
On Jan 16 11:24, Doug VanLeuven wrote:
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
Even though it allows mapping between UNIX user names (from the evil
other side) and Windows user names, it doesn't map the POSIX permission
bits into NTFS like permissions. If you look into the file property box,
you'll see no
Unfortunately, PMTU discovery doesn't work over avian carrier. Sending
out bigger and bigger packets until you find the size that makes the carrier
choke was banned by the humane society But it's a good way to make
pate
It reminds me of a Calvin Hobbes strip where Calvin and his
On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 04:36:17PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 04:26:03PM -0500, Robb, Sam wrote:
But beyond curiosity, there's not many reasons to install and
use both, at least concurrently. Cygwin and SFU both address
the same needs and Cygwin covers a wider
On Jan 15 00:38, Chris January wrote:
On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 04:26:03PM -0500, Robb, Sam wrote:
But beyond curiosity, there's not many reasons to install and
use both, at least concurrently. Cygwin and SFU both address
the same needs and Cygwin covers a wider range of tools. We'll
[...]
It would be rather interesting to add nfs to cygwin. We could develop
filesystem plug-ins which could be generalized for stuff like NFS,
EXTFS, etc.
Didn't someone say they had a free month? Perfect project. :-)
Actually, I'd already been thinking about it - I think I'll be
Well, I don't know about the rest of you, but since SFU comes with a
great (and free) X Server, I am throwing in the towel.
Harold
I am very curious about SFU. But, alas, I am mistrustful of MS,
especially in regards to security. I'll probaly play with both. I also
like supporting
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Who knows for sure what the *real* driving force that is behind this
change. However, it is timed very closely (concurrently?) with MS's
extension of 98, 98SE, and Me support through Fall 2006. The
current buzz
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On Jan 15 00:38, Chris January wrote:
On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 04:26:03PM -0500, Robb, Sam wrote
So, where do you get the license? I picked up SFU30 from LinuxWorld,
but it was an eval. Is there a place to get free licenses, downloads,
etc.
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Joaquin wrote:
So, where do you get the license? I picked up SFU30 from LinuxWorld,
but it was an eval. Is there a place to get free licenses, downloads,
etc.
There is the SFU-3.5beta available from the MS SFU site for free.
Gerrit
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Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On Jan 15 00:38, Chris January wrote:
On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 04:26:03PM -0500, Robb, Sam wrote:
But beyond curiosity, there's not many reasons to install and
use both, at least concurrently. Cygwin and SFU both address
the same needs and Cygwin covers a wider
Harold L. Hunt, II writes:
Well, I don't know about the rest of you, but since SFU comes with a
great (and free) X Server, I am throwing in the towel.
Thanks for your great work!
Jan.
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Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote:
Harold L. Hunt, II writes:
Well, I don't know about the rest of you, but since SFU comes with a
great (and free) X Server, I am throwing in the towel.
Thanks for your great work!
Jan.
Jan,
I don't know that I would call it great work since I think I am now in
the
Harold L. Hunt, II writes:
I don't know that I would call it great work since I think I am now
in the running for the worst received joke of 2004 :)
Sorry, don't take it too hard; chances are I'll send another silly
reply to someone else before long :)
Jan.
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Buchbinder, Barry wrote:
Does this mean that that MS finds that Cygwin (and U/Win, MKS, et al.) is a
threat? Or that they were not making much from SFU but cannot drop it for
various reasons, so are going for brownie points?
The motivation is probably so that they can realease other unix
On Wed, 2004-01-14 at 20:35, Brian Dessent wrote:
Christopher Faylor wrote:
One thing that Cygwin does lack, and SFU has, is an NFS client :-/
I know that alone will probably entice me into taking a look at
SFU.
It would be rather interesting to add nfs to cygwin. We could develop
With carrier pigeon 1.0, the beak is so small you have to
dis-assemble/re-assemble the IP packets.
Carrier pigeon 2.0 has a bigger beak and can hold a full packet.
Unfortunately the evolutionary process is goin slow. Maybe within a
couple of millenium.
Have you thought about using
On Thu, 15 Jan 2004, Robb, Sam wrote:
With carrier pigeon 1.0, the beak is so small you have to
dis-assemble/re-assemble the IP packets.
Carrier pigeon 2.0 has a bigger beak and can hold a full packet.
Unfortunately the evolutionary process is goin slow. Maybe within a
couple of
[apologies to Greg for hitting the wrong reply button and dumping this in
his personal inbox when it was meant for the list]
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On Wed, 2004-01-14 at 20:35, Brian Dessent wrote:
Ooh,
On Thu, 15 Jan 2004, Dave Korn wrote:
On Wed, 2004-01-14 at 20:35, Brian Dessent wrote:
Ooh, ooh! Somebody port KDE's Kioslave feature to Cygwin.
Then I'll
finally be able to mount as a drive letter that ISO9660 image on my
remote Appletalk share that's tunneled through ssh through
On Thu, 15 Jan 2004, Peter A. Castro wrote:
On Thu, 15 Jan 2004, Dave Korn wrote:
On Wed, 2004-01-14 at 20:35, Brian Dessent wrote:
Ooh, ooh! Somebody port KDE's Kioslave feature to Cygwin.
Then I'll
finally be able to mount as a drive letter that ISO9660 image on my
remote
On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 02:58:17PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
Unfortunately, IP-over-cheetah can only handle short stretches of huge
bandwidth communication, and then the network goes down and the
connections need to be reset...
And the power requirements are a little messy...
cgf
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Andrew DeFaria wrote:
Last I checked SFU's NFS was just DiskAccess and the POSIX was merely a
30-day trial of MKS.
30-day trial? It's actually a subset of the MKS toolkit, but is not
30-day restricted in any way. Previously, if you paid the $99, you got
most of what you would need anyway. Now
Larry Hall wrote:
The current buzz on this change was that MS was afraid
too many orphaned 98 users (currently 25% of Windows users)
might defect to Linux rather than upgrade [...]
Oooh. I wonder what they were smoking. I seriously doubt even a tiny
fraction of those users would even *think*
At 04:21 PM 1/15/2004, Shankar Unni you wrote:
Larry Hall wrote:
The current buzz on this change was that MS was afraid
too many orphaned 98 users (currently 25% of Windows users)
might defect to Linux rather than upgrade [...]
Oooh. I wonder what they were smoking. I seriously doubt even a
On Thu, 15 Jan 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote:
On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 02:58:17PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
Unfortunately, IP-over-cheetah can only handle short stretches of huge
bandwidth communication, and then the network goes down and the
connections need to be reset...
And that's
On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 12:10:57PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
On Thu, 15 Jan 2004, Robb, Sam wrote:
With carrier pigeon 1.0, the beak is so small you have to
dis-assemble/re-assemble the IP packets.
Carrier pigeon 2.0 has a bigger beak and can hold a full packet.
Actually, this has always been a potential issue, since SFU has been around
for a while. The biggest conflicts, beyond path clashes which we
unequivocally state must be resolved by putting Cygwin first in the path,
are likely to be services. But, so far, we haven't seen lots of complaints
At 04:26 PM 1/14/2004, Robb, Sam you wrote:
But beyond curiosity, there's not many reasons to install and
use both, at least concurrently. Cygwin and SFU both address
the same needs and Cygwin covers a wider range of tools. We'll
see what happens though.
One thing that Cygwin does lack, and
On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 04:26:03PM -0500, Robb, Sam wrote:
But beyond curiosity, there's not many reasons to install and
use both, at least concurrently. Cygwin and SFU both address
the same needs and Cygwin covers a wider range of tools. We'll
see what happens though.
One thing that Cygwin
Well, I don't know about the rest of you, but since SFU comes with a
great (and free) X Server, I am throwing in the towel.
Harold
Larry Hall wrote:
Actually, this has always been a potential issue, since SFU has been around
for a while. The biggest conflicts, beyond path clashes which we
Who knows for sure what the *real* driving force that is behind this
change. However, it is timed very closely (concurrently?) with MS's
extension of 98, 98SE, and Me support through Fall 2006. The current
buzz on this change was that MS was afraid too many orphaned 98 users
(currently 25% of
On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 04:26:03PM -0500, Robb, Sam wrote:
But beyond curiosity, there's not many reasons to install and
use both, at least concurrently. Cygwin and SFU both address
the same needs and Cygwin covers a wider range of tools. We'll
see what happens though.
One thing that
Christopher Faylor wrote:
One thing that Cygwin does lack, and SFU has, is an NFS client :-/
I know that alone will probably entice me into taking a look at
SFU.
It would be rather interesting to add nfs to cygwin. We could develop
filesystem plug-ins which could be generalized for stuff
Chris January wrote:
On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 04:26:03PM -0500, Robb, Sam wrote:
But beyond curiosity, there's not many reasons to install and use
both, at least concurrently. Cygwin and SFU both address the same
needs and Cygwin covers a wider range of tools. We'll
see what happens though.
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