[Pc_Support] Re: LUNA: Re: Is Cygwin still available FREE from RedHat ....

[Bryan J. Smith]

Bryan J. Smith wrote:
> Yes -- http://www.cygwin.com
> ...

"William A. Mahaffey III" <wam at HiWAAY.net> wrote:
> Thanks, I went to www.redhat.com & poked around there, but
> couldn't find any free downloads ....

www.redhat.com is clearly their commercial front, and has
been for quite awhile now.  It's more a trademark/legal issue
than anything.  You can thank companies like Cobalt and Sun
for much of that, long story.

They used to standardize all the GPL stuff under
sourceware.redhat.com and a few other subdomains, but now
it's largely left to other domains for various legal reasons.
 They still keep fedora.redhat.com up, but they are still
transitioning things off-site.

lists.redhat.com hasn't changed though, and it's not likely
to change in the future either.

> clear why now :-).

???  Didn't get your point there.

Regardless of the domain name, Red Hat foots the bill.  Even
all the various Fedora infrastructure.  And Red Hat employees
work on non-Red Hat products as their paid functions --
especially in MA (not so much NC anymore).

> I have & use an older version, and am probably going to
update
> that box (GTW WIN2K) to WinXP 2003 in the near future, &
> figured I'd update cygwin along with it.

Cygwin is basically the DLL that everything else uses.
Setup.exe is what you use to update.
Just grab the latest and update.



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