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From: Michael Smith <smith@xml-doc.org>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: name: GNU/cygwin system
Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 08:40:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020521053722.PIZS18164.oe-ismta1.bizmailsrvcs.net@SMITH-MICHAEL.openwave.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020517164815.GK22415@redhat.com>

Christopher Faylor <cgf-cygwin@cygwin.com> writes:

> [...]
> It's never been a goal of Cygwin to adhere to something like the LSB
> and we already refer to the Single UNIX Specification for reference.
> This is another thing that you could have gleaned from inspection
> of the mailing list archives.
> 
> Anyone who might be interested in participating in something like the
> LSB is undoubtedly already aware of it.
> 
> Respectfully, you seem rather new to the project.  I wouldn't feel
> comfortable with you representing it in any way.

You're right of course. I just intended the LSB and name suggestions
in part as suggestions to maybe help raise more awareness of Cygwin in
the free software community (though I can see now that these
particular suggestions weren't terrifically thoughtful ones).

In hindsight, I realize that the name suggestion was pretty
simple-minded (and I apologize once again for not having the courtesy
to first take the time to check the list archive to see if it had
already been discussed).

Anyway, though I think just about everybody who's got any familiarity
with the free software world at all knows that Linux packages (RPMs
and Debian packages) are available for all sorts of things, I'm not
sure how many are aware that:

  * through Cygwin, many of the same tools available as packages for
    Linux distributions are also available as packages for Windows
    (and Cygwin provides an environment for compiling and installing
    many others that aren't packaged yet)

  * Cygwin provides a sophisticated package management system that
    makes it easy to install and update packages

I don't what can be done to raise more awareness about Cygwin --
especially about the availability of packages; but in part, I guess
that more people should -- when, on mailing lists or websites, they're
pointing out that certain applications are available as Linux
packages -- take the time to check to see whether particular packages
are available for Cygwin, and acknowledge when they are.

That's what I've tried to do for the DocBook/XML/SGML packages that
Jon Foster and Markus Hoenicka put together -- by adding information
about them to the DocBook Wiki:

  http://docbook.org/wiki/moin.cgi/DocBookPackages
  http://docbook.org/wiki/moin.cgi/CygwinPackages

About the page at the second URL: I hope I'm not using the Cygwin logo
inappropriately. If I am, somebody please let me know (I couldn't find
any information at the Cygwin site about use of the logo).

Are there other promotional logos/buttons/banners I could/should use
instead? Maybe a version of the Cygwin banner (http://cygwin.com/cygwin.jpg)?

Cheers,

  --Mike
         




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  reply	other threads:[~2002-05-21  5:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-05-17  2:06 name: GNU/Cygwin system Robert Collins
2002-05-17  2:26 ` Michael Smith
2002-05-17 10:44   ` name: GNU/cygwin system Christopher Faylor
2002-05-21  8:40     ` Michael Smith [this message]
2002-05-21 10:15       ` Christopher Faylor
2002-05-21 17:29         ` Charles Wilson
2002-05-21 17:57           ` Charles Wilson
2002-05-22  4:49           ` Gary R. Van Sickle
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-05-22 14:27 Kilroy, David
     [not found] <20020522065446.18919.qmail@sina.com>
2002-05-22 14:23 ` Charles Wilson
2002-05-21 20:22 Robb, Sam
2002-05-21 11:00 Robert Collins
2002-05-20 10:11 name: GNU/Cygwin system Peter Ring
2002-05-17  1:40 Michael Smith
2002-05-17 11:02 ` Charles Wilson

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