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

[William A. Mahaffey III]

Bryan J. Smith wrote:

>Bryan J. Smith wrote:
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>>Yes -- http://www.cygwin.com
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>"William A. Mahaffey III" <wam at HiWAAY.net> wrote:
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>>Thanks, I went to www.redhat.com & poked around there, but
>>couldn't find any free downloads ....
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>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.
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>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.
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>lists.redhat.com hasn't changed though, and it's not likely
>to change in the future either.
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>>clear why now :-).
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>???  Didn't get your point there.
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cuz I was looking on the wrong website :-). i.e. looking for free on the 
commercial site ....

>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).
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>>I have & use an older version, and am probably going to
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>update
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>>that box (GTW WIN2K) to WinXP 2003 in the near future, &
>>figured I'd update cygwin along with it.
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>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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And you presage my next question: Is there a Linux equivalent tool to 
setup.exe ? My WIN2K box has no internet access, just this (SuSE 8.2, 
933 MHz PIII) box. I can't remember what I did last time, cuz I had the 
same problem then ....

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	William A. Mahaffey III

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