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On 4/30/08, Fabian Groffen <grobian@g.o> wrote: |
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> On 30-04-2008 19:51:42 +0300, Alon Bar-Lev wrote: |
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> > On 4/30/08, Denis Dupeyron <calchan@g.o> wrote: |
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> > > It's my pleasure to introduce Markus Duft (mduft) as a new developer. |
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> > > He will go among us under the name of mduft, and will work in the |
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> > > Gentoo/Alt project porting Gentoo Prefix to Interix. Yes, people, that |
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> > > means Gentoo on Win32. |
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> > Welcome! |
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> > I will love to see Windows support via cygwin and not commartial product. |
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> > Something like [1], [2]. |
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> Interix is free and these days bundled with Windwows, IIRC. |
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I couldn't understand it from [1], anyway the source is unavailable right? |
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> Why do you want it to run on Cygwin? (Honest question...) |
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It is the only project I know providing good support for POSIX Windows |
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platform while having Open Source license. |
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But if you are correct and a good POSIX layer is provided built-in in |
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Windows, I will be happy to see stage3 for Windows. |
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Alon. |
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[1] http://www.interix.com/products_services.htm |
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