I have to chime in here; Originally, I became curious about Linux BECAUSE of Cygwin. As I experimented more and more with Cygwin, I became really impressed with how it was able to support quite a lot of Linux apps at the source level will relatively little trouble. The trouble and care the Cygwin developers have gone to to emulate a real *nix environment on something as backwards as Windows is truly amazing. A feat hidden from view, like all great software engineering, of course, but tremendous nonetheless.
Of course digging around *nix via Cygwin ends up being so interesting that you end up thinking things like "Why is Windows so retarded?" and eventually the pull of Linux becomes irresistable. So I eventually switched to Linux, again, because of Cygwin. I think that that might even be one if Cygwin's unstated goals. Thank you, devs. J On Fri, 2006-12-15 at 09:48 -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: > If Cygwin can't adapt to Microsoft innovation then maybe we should all > either be moving to Linux or MinGW. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
