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From: Ken Brown <kbrown@sourceware.org>
To: cygwin-cvs@sourceware.org
Subject: [newlib-cygwin] winsup/doc/faq-what.xml: FAQ 1.2 Windows versions supported
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2020 11:58:08 +0000 (GMT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200918115808.8BC1F3857C46@sourceware.org> (raw)

https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=newlib-cygwin.git;h=749cbccc55146bdf65a50b71267a16f5bd180334

commit 749cbccc55146bdf65a50b71267a16f5bd180334
Author: Brian Inglis <Brian.Inglis@SystematicSW.ab.ca>
Date:   Thu Sep 17 20:53:35 2020 -0600

    winsup/doc/faq-what.xml: FAQ 1.2 Windows versions supported
    
    enumerate Vista, 7, 8, 10 progression to be clear, and earliest server 2008;
    add 8.1, exclude S mode, add Cygwin32 on ARM, specify 64 bit only AMD/Intel

Diff:
---
 winsup/doc/faq-what.xml | 10 +++++-----
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/winsup/doc/faq-what.xml b/winsup/doc/faq-what.xml
index ea8496ccb..77ba1c5fd 100644
--- a/winsup/doc/faq-what.xml
+++ b/winsup/doc/faq-what.xml
@@ -30,12 +30,12 @@ They can be used from one of the provided Unix shells like bash, tcsh or zsh.
 <question><para>What versions of Windows are supported?</para></question>
 <answer>
 
-<para>Cygwin can be expected to run on all modern, released versions of Windows.
-State January 2016 this includes Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008 and all
-later versions of Windows up to Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016.
+<para>Cygwin can be expected to run on all modern, released versions of Windows,
+from Windows Vista, 7, 8, 8.1, 10, Windows Server 2008 and all
+later versions of Windows, except Windows S mode due to its limitations.
 The 32 bit version of Cygwin also runs in the WOW64 32 bit environment on
-released 64 bit versions of Windows, the 64 bit version of course only on
-64 bit Windows.
+released 64 bit versions of Windows including ARM PCs,
+the 64 bit version of course only on 64 bit AMD/Intel compatible PCs.
 </para>
 <para>Keep in mind that Cygwin can only do as much as the underlying OS
 supports.  Because of this, Cygwin will behave differently, and


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