Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com From: tprinceusa@mindspring.com Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 15:57:13 -0400 To: DJ Delorie Cc: cygwin@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: RFC: linux compatibility Message-ID: X-Originating-IP: 134.134.248.29 DJ Delorie wrote: > One of the ongoing discussions about cygwin is which "unix" to be compatible with. I would like to propose that the target compatibility reference be Linux. Note I didn't say "Red Hat Linux" although that's the only Linux *I* have ;-) * Applications that run on Linux can more easily be ported to Cygwin. I agree fully with those points. Speaking more against than for my employer, but I run Caldera and RedHat for personal use when cygwin doesn't do the job; TurboLinux, RedHat, and W2K/MKS are in use at the office, but I'd rather not go for compatibility with MKS where it is the odd one out. I've already broken the request about guessing... Tim tprince@computer.org -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com