Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: RE: cygwin maximum capacity -> cygwin <=> linux Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 17:10:17 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: content-class: urn:content-classes:message X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F6rg_Schaible?= To: "karthik bala guru" , , "Jim Ramberg" Cc: X-IsSubscribed: yes Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id i6MFGOSF023865 karthik bala guru wrote on Thursday, July 22, 2004 4:57 PM: > Can Cygwin have all the normal linux has ? > what is the percentage by which cygwin is nearer > to linux ? what are those that cant be provided > by cygwin. Define "normal Linux"! No, Cygwin won't have a kernel and will not have XFS, JFS, ext2/3, ReiserFS support nor elf support. In case of normal applications it is up to the number of volunteers maintaining packages. So, if you miss something, it is you who can change it :) -- Jörg -- 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/