From: john_r_velman@mail.hac.com Subject: Re[2]: Yet another GNU-Win32 website... 10 Aug 1998 20:47:44 -0700 Message-ID: <0EXH00K3AET3RE.cygnus.gnu-win32@mail.hac.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: MULTIPART/MIXED; BOUNDARY="Boundary_(ID_MvnxN4UGEYhEKdZcRpj6XA)" Cc: gnu-win32@cygnus.com --Boundary_(ID_MvnxN4UGEYhEKdZcRpj6XA) Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=ISO-8859-1 This sounds like a great idea! I'd add: How about writing some HOWTOs? (I'd volunteer for writing, but I don't know how to do anything much, just yet.) John Velman jrvelman@mail.hac.com ______________________________ Reply Separator _________________________________ Subject: Re: Yet another GNU-Win32 website... Author: michael@weiser.saale-net.de at mime Date: 8/8/98 3:45 AM Hi Jeff, You wrote: >Why doesn't someone build a distribution of cygwin32 configured with >all the goodies, updates, egcs, X11, etc? There are several people at >my organization who downloaded cygwin32 independently, and I can >guarantee they don't know how powerful this software is. A polished, >quick-to-install distribution would knock their socks off... personally >I'd jump at the chance if I were a CD maker. I think that's a really great idea. Perhaps we could merge this approach with the tendencies to build rpm-packages for cygwin32 and have a installation program like linux-distributions? bye Michael - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help". --Boundary_(ID_MvnxN4UGEYhEKdZcRpj6XA) Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=ISO-8859-1 RFC-822-headers: Received: from CONVERSION-DAEMON by mail.hac.com (PMDF V5.1-10 #26245) id <0EXE00J01907O4@mail.hac.com> for "john r velman"@mime.mail.hac.com; Sat, 8 Aug 1998 16:24:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from PROCESS-DAEMON by mail.hac.com (PMDF V5.1-10 #26245) id <0EXE00J01906O3@mail.hac.com> for "john r velman"@mime.mail.hac.com; Sat, 08 Aug 1998 16:24:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fw-es05.hac.com by mail.hac.com (PMDF V5.1-10 #26245) with ESMTP id <0EXE00I28906WD@mail.hac.com> for "john r velman"@mime.mail.hac.com; Sat, 08 Aug 1998 16:24:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cygnus.com ([205.180.230.5]) by fw-es05.hac.com (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id QAA06782 for ; Sat, 08 Aug 1998 16:24:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by runyon.cygnus.com (8.8.7-cygnus/8.8.7) id HAA25001; Sat, 08 Aug 1998 07:11:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from einstein.saale-net.de (einstein.saale-net.de [194.221.90.201]) by runyon.cygnus.com (8.8.7-cygnus/8.8.7) with ESMTP id HAA24997 for ; Sat, 08 Aug 1998 07:11:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from weiser (uucp@localhost) by einstein.saale-net.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with bsmtp id QAA13309; Sat, 08 Aug 1998 16:11:01 +0200 Received: from nargothrond.weiser.saale-net.de (nargothrond.weiser.saale-net.de [192.168.1.2]) by weiser.saale-net.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA07195; Sat, 08 Aug 1998 12:45:33 +0200 Date: Sat, 08 Aug 1998 10:45:33 +0000 (GMT) From: michael@weiser.saale-net.de (Michael Weiser) Subject: Re: Yet another GNU-Win32 website... In-reply-to: <35CA0117.764E5833@sigma6.com> Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com Message-id: <35cd2bf3.713425@mail> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.5/32.452 Precedence: bulk References: <35CA0117.764E5833@sigma6.com> --Boundary_(ID_MvnxN4UGEYhEKdZcRpj6XA)-- - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".