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Re: Building Emacs-cvs on Cygwin
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: Building Emacs-cvs on Cygwin |
Date: |
Thu, 26 Oct 2006 11:06:25 -0400 |
> From: David Kastrup <address@hidden>
> Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 12:24:40 +0200
> Cc: address@hidden
>
> Microsoft Windows is not a complete system, as it is missing most end
> user applications, and is also lacking the toolbox inventory of small
> utilities that are a necessary ingredient of POSIX systems.
What exactly is missing that makes you say this?
A bare-bones Linux kernel lacks even a shell and basic commands like
ls and cp, which are all GNU programs, but MS-Windows does come with
the equivalents of these commands out of the box.
> One has to add quite a bit of GNU stuff to MS Windows before it
> becomes comparably useful.
``Useful'' is in the eyes of the beholder. ``Usable'' is a more
relevant issue: stripped of all GNU programs, a Linux-based system is
simply unusable, IMO.
- Re: Building Emacs-cvs on Cygwin, (continued)
- Re: Building Emacs-cvs on Cygwin, Angelo Graziosi, 2006/10/26
- Re: Building Emacs-cvs on Cygwin, Jason Rumney, 2006/10/26
- Re: Building Emacs-cvs on Cygwin, Angelo Graziosi, 2006/10/26
- Re: Building Emacs-cvs on Cygwin, Eli Zaretskii, 2006/10/27
- Re: Building Emacs-cvs on Cygwin, Angelo Graziosi, 2006/10/27
- Re: Building Emacs-cvs on Cygwin, Angelo Graziosi, 2006/10/27
- Re: Building Emacs-cvs on Cygwin, Eli Zaretskii, 2006/10/28
- Re: Building Emacs-cvs on Cygwin (GCC summary), Angelo Graziosi, 2006/10/29
- Re: Building Emacs-cvs on Cygwin, Richard Stallman, 2006/10/26
- Re: Building Emacs-cvs on Cygwin, David Kastrup, 2006/10/26
- Re: Building Emacs-cvs on Cygwin,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: Building Emacs-cvs on Cygwin, David Kastrup, 2006/10/26
- Re: Building Emacs-cvs on Cygwin, Eli Zaretskii, 2006/10/27
- Re: Building Emacs-cvs on Cygwin, David Kastrup, 2006/10/27
- Re: Building Emacs-cvs on Cygwin, Eli Zaretskii, 2006/10/28
- Re: Building Emacs-cvs on Cygwin, Richard Stallman, 2006/10/29
- Re: Building Emacs-cvs on Cygwin, Eli Zaretskii, 2006/10/29
- Re: Building Emacs-cvs on Cygwin, Richard Stallman, 2006/10/30
- Re: Building Emacs-cvs on Cygwin, Eli Zaretskii, 2006/10/30
- Re: Building Emacs-cvs on Cygwin, Richard Stallman, 2006/10/26
- Re: Building Emacs-cvs on Cygwin, David Kastrup, 2006/10/26