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Re: Cygwin1.DLL soon to be Windows Vista only


On Sun, Apr 01, 2007 at 04:08:46PM -0400, Igor Peshansky wrote:
>On Sun, 1 Apr 2007, Roelf Renkema wrote:
>
>> Igor Peshansky wrote:
>>
>> > Who said it was a gag?  Did you even try running the latest snapshot
>> > on Win2k or WinXP?
>>
>> You mean that was cygwin? Damn I reinstalled win2k, xp and 2003 twice
>> this afternoon because I was blaming MS.
>
>Heh, you should have reinstalled Cygwin.  Everyone knows that a few
>complete reinstalls always solve everything.
>
>> I hate this. I'm agains this. Principally. But then again, if Cygwin
>> would have been any good someone would have ported it to Linux long ago.
>> We probably wouldn't be stuck with Corinna but complaining to Linus
>> himself.
>
>Oh, you poor soul.  You don't know, do you?
>
>Well, here it comes:
>
>"Linus Torvalds is just a pen name used in an alternating fashion by
>Corinna Vinschen and Christopher G. Faylor."
>
>So now you know the hidden agenda behind making Linux so much like Cygwin.
>
>There, now everyone's in on the secret.  I hope CGF doesn't ban me
>permanently from posting to this list.

Oh, you're banned alright.  Banned, zoom, to the moon.

cgf

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