Hello List,
about 18 months ago we recommended cygwin as a unix-like
environment for a Windows 2003 Server to our Admin.
This was turned down on the grounds that it did not satisfy
the security requirements of our organisation. (unfortunately
I don't know the details as I wasn't involved in the
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 1:36 AM, David Law wrote:
(snip)
>
> Firstly, I was wondering if SUA maybe has a reputation for
> bad performance, or could it maybe be the architecture of
> desktop contra server pc's?
> Would you expect better performance from cygwin?
>
I was involved in porting a project
On Aug 12 11:24, Csaba Raduly wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 1:36 AM, David Law wrote:
> (snip)
> >
> > Firstly, I was wondering if SUA maybe has a reputation for
> > bad performance, or could it maybe be the architecture of
> > desktop contra server pc's?
> > Would you expect better performance
Did anyone have any thoughts about the security side of the question:
do I have more, less or exactly the same rights?
Best regards,
DaveLaw
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Subject: CygWin Security & Performance Issues
Sent: Thu, 12 Aug 2010
From: David Law
> Hello List,
>
> ab
Please don't http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#TOFU
On Aug 12 14:33, David Law wrote:
> Did anyone have any thoughts about the security side of the question:
> do I have more, less or exactly the same rights?
Yes. Cygwin is just a user space DLL, not an OS. If you're an admin
user not running unde
Here is the so-called "definition" of TOFU:
"Text Over, Full-quote Under (or, in the original German, "Text Oben, Fullquote
Unten").
A combination of top posting and full quoting, which makes the messages hard to
read (accoring to RFC 1855).
Often combined with raw e-mail addresses in quoted mes
, David Law wrote:
> >
> > Please don't...
> > ... waste peoples time with meaningless acronyms.
> >
> > Best regards,
> > DaveLaw
> >
> > - original message ----
> >
> > Subject: Re: CygWin Security & Performance Issues
&g
On Aug 12 16:47, David Law wrote:
> (Oh, by the way, for those of you who don't speak German,
> "Text Oben, Fullquote Unten" is just as meaningless)
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/TOFU
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TOFU
Corinna
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On 8/12/2010 9:48 AM, David Law wrote:
> Yes, go & waste someone elses time instead.
>
> I got exactly the information I needed for my meeting tomorrow.
Is it too much to hope that what you got is, "Don't use Cygwin. They
had the nerve to *ask* me to conform to their list posting rules, and
that
> Yes, go & waste someone elses time instead.
So your time was wasted, and yet ...
> I got exactly the information I needed for my meeting tomorrow.
... with never a word of thanks, only insults.
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On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 10:00:02AM -0500, Jeremy Bopp wrote:
>On 8/12/2010 9:48 AM, David Law wrote:
>> Yes, go & waste someone elses time instead.
>>
>> I got exactly the information I needed for my meeting tomorrow.
>
>Is it too much to hope that what you got is, "Don't use Cygwin. They
>had th
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 02:29:27PM -0400, Robert Jacobson wrote:
>On 8/12/2010 10:02 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>Ok, I'll not waste my time and reply to you another time. That makes
>>both of us happy.
>
>Is this what passes for professional behavior at Red Hat?
This is off-topic.
If you want
Maybe the co-leader of the project should channel her efforts into
just that,
rather than getting peoples backs up with unnecessary nitpicking about
how she thinks they should structure their emails.
Best Regards,
DaveLaw
On 12.08.2010 21:15, Spiro Trikaliotis wrote:
* On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 10:17:44PM +0200, DaveLaw wrote:
>Maybe the co-leader of the project should channel her efforts into just
>that, rather than getting peoples backs up with unnecessary nitpicking
>about how she thinks they should structure their emails.
Welcome to the cygwin mailing list den
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 11:55 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> Really? As far as I understood from the docs, SUA is rather styled
> after SVR4.
Looks like I got it into my head that if a Unix isn't GNU, it must be
BSD. Obviously, I was wrong *
* "Wrong," said Renner.
"The tactful way," Rod said
Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 10:17:44PM +0200, DaveLaw wrote:
>>Maybe the co-leader of the project should channel her efforts into just
>>that, rather than getting peoples backs up with unnecessary nitpicking
>>about how she thinks they should structure their emails.
>
> Welc
You're fighting a battle thats already lost. :-)
(as you would know if you had understood the german wiki)
Best Regards,
DaveLaw
- original message
Subject: Re: CygWin Security & Performance Issues
Sent: Thu, 12 Aug 2010
From: Corinna Vinschen
> On Aug 12 16:47, Dav
On Aug 12 17:06, David Law wrote:
> You're fighting a battle thats already lost. :-)
> (as you would know if you had understood the german wiki)
David, I don't care. Use my reply to your OP in your meeting and be
happy.
You're welcome,
Corinna
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