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Re: Rootless Mode is an Important and Needed Feature
- From: "Michael F. March" <march at indirect dot com>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2002 09:23:03 -0700
- Subject: Re: Rootless Mode is an Important and Needed Feature
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Harold L Hunt II wrote:
Good point Alexander.
On a side note: Why is it that XDarwin has so many people contributing
code and features (they seem to have an OpenGL-passthrough system now,
which is pretty amazing), while Cygwin/XFree86 has so few
contributors? This seems contradictory because Windows is on 95% of
desktops while Mac OS X is only on < 1% (~20% of Apple's 5% market
share are running Mac OS X).
That question will probably always baffle me.
Up until the past year or so, porting to Cygwin was a little more
difficult than
porting application to OSX. Don't forget, the Cygwin folks have had to
write more of the layers of the *NIX environment whereas the OSX folks
have a nice (and complete) *NIX environment handed to them on a
plate.
I have been using Cygwin for years now and I would say the momentum,
user base, and usability is definitely increasing.