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Bryan J. Smith wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Bryan J. Smith wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Yes -- <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.cygwin.com">http://www.cygwin.com</a>
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"William A. Mahaffey III" <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:wam@HiWAAY.net"><wam@HiWAAY.net></a> wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Thanks, I went to <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.redhat.com">www.redhat.com</a> & poked around there, but
couldn't find any free downloads ....
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<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.redhat.com">www.redhat.com</a> 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.
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<pre wrap="">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 ....<br>
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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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<pre wrap="">I have & use an older version, and am probably going to
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<pre wrap=""><!---->update
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<pre wrap="">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 ....<br>
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William A. Mahaffey III
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"The M1 Garand is without doubt the finest implement of war
ever devised by man."
-- Gen. George S. Patton
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