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>         Well if we are here, and if we are using Winblows instead of Linux, is
> because we have to use it at work!!!
> 
>         I am here to implement GNU software on Windows, show it to my boss, and
> tell him that this is just a demo of what could be done on Linux.


For that I will not spend weeks and months.  I would rather install Linux on a laptop and do the demo to boss :-)

In my opinion the purpose of Cygwin is to provide UNIX software to a much bigger community of Windows users :-)

Suhaib


> 
>         LINUX has already all of this stuff working, and several packages more,
> so it is working as Linux advertising for me!!
> 
>         If you go to my home, you will find my big system running Linux, and my
> wife's little system running Windows (just for some games and stuff that hasn't
> been ported for Linux, and really minor stuff).
> 

If you go to my home you find Windows and Linux running on both the Systems, mine and my wife :-0
This way we can benefit from best of the both OS :-)

--Suhaib

> 
> 
> Greetings, and Long Live the Penguin  :)
> 
> 
> On 03-Jun-99 Suhaib M. Siddiqi wrote:
> > 
> >> 
> >> SUGGESTION: Upgrade to at least Win98, but if at all possible switch to
> >> WinNT!!
> >> 
> >> ST: Linux advocates, we already know that you'd suggest switching linux.
> >> 
> > 
> > Linux advocates suggest switching to Linux but they are using Windows, that's
> > why they
> > are here.  Poor way of campaining for Linux :-)
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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