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From: Bill Stewart <bstewart@iname.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Windows 2019 support?
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2020 09:52:09 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANV9t=S1ortVYOa5mX39kp9yiXAoNUVm5DDTd78yreDdC+_U-A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CH2PR02MB613437AFB3FB8D92A1D5BC53983E0@CH2PR02MB6134.namprd02.prod.outlook.com>

On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 7:58 AM Chris Bovitz wrote:

Cygwin can be expected to run on all modern, released versions of Windows.
> State [sic] January 2016 this includes Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008
> and all later versions of Windows up to Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016.
>
> To me, this implies that Windows Server 2019 is supported, but is that
> true?  If so, could the FAQ be updated to show that?  Thanks.
>

Windows Server 2019 is just the server version of Windows 10 1809. In my
testing it works without any issues.

My recommendation is for the FAQ to state:

"Cygwin can be expected to run on all modern, released versions of Windows.
Since January 2016 this includes Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, and
all later versions."

Bill

  reply	other threads:[~2020-09-17 15:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-09-17 13:58 Chris Bovitz
2020-09-17 15:52 ` Bill Stewart [this message]
2020-09-19  3:32   ` Brian Inglis
2020-09-19  7:37     ` Thomas Wolff
2020-09-19 16:10       ` Brian Inglis
2020-09-21 14:49       ` Bill Stewart

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