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Re[2]: Yet another GNU-Win32 website...
- Subject: Re[2]: Yet another GNU-Win32 website...
- From: john_r_velman at mail dot hac dot com
- Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1998 09:20 -0700 (PDT)
- Cc: gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
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
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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
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Subject: Re: Yet another GNU-Win32 website...
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