due to issues of politics and finances.
While I appreciate your restraint on the **rant** you need to also understand the position
she is in dealing with administrative bureaucracies and cut a little slack.
As to your comments about Cygwin, yes all that is true, but again she is dealing with
a very mixed environment on campus that includes a lot of the Windoze folk.
Cygwin IS a tool allowing a measure of interoperability from a M$ box to a *nix system
for certain limited types of activities. On that basis, IMHO, it is a valid topic, of course
your mileage may vary.
Dennis
On Wed, 2005-12-14 at 01:11 -0800, Charles Stevenson wrote:
On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 08:43:33PM -0800, Cliff Frazier wrote: > Cywing -> Cygwin? Looks like SLUG misspelled it on their announcement. LOL! > Jeff Shippen wrote: > >Anyway, this is the final meeting for the semester, and the topic is > >"Cywing, which is a Linux Terminal Windows that let you use Linux > >commands on a Windows machine like if you were in Linux." Whoever wrote that is seriously confused. ;-) Cygwin provides a shell interpreter, libraries and all sorts of things. None of which are Linux. *insert rant about too many LUGs for such a small town* peace, core _______________________________________________ RLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug
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