name: GNU/cygwin system

Christopher Faylor cgf@redhat.com
Tue May 21 10:15:00 GMT 2002


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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