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From: Christopher Faylor <cgf@redhat.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: name: GNU/cygwin system
Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 10:15:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020521144206.GA16046@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020521053722.PIZS18164.oe-ismta1.bizmailsrvcs.net@SMITH-MICHAEL.openwave.com>

On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 12:37:22AM -0500, Michael Smith wrote:
>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.

You're working from an assumption that cygwin is an unknown project.
It is currently the most popular project on sources.redhat.com, so I
don't think it is suffering too badly from lack of awareness.

cgf

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  reply	other threads:[~2002-05-21 14:42 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
2002-05-21 10:15       ` Christopher Faylor [this message]
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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