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Subject: Re:  FreeBSD and NT... Why?????
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Anyone played with the cygwin stuff for 95/NT?  I now have a bash shell on
my windoze box, and it's nice, if not a little... weird?  There's also a
new X server out there for mac/win that is FREE as in $0...

http://www.cygnus.com/misc/gnu-win32/
http://tnt.microimages.com/www/html/freestuf/mixdlfrm.htm

Charles

On Sat, 26 Jul 1997, Aaron Jackson wrote:

> I prefer MacOS. ;-)
> 
> Aaron Jackson		jackson@msrce.howard.edu
> 
> >Come on gang, let's not be MS or FreeBSD bashers or whatever. They're
> >different. That's all. If you want to take a long trip, you take your
> >LTD or
> >Capri or whatever; if you want to haul some plywood you take your
> >pickup.
> >For round town driving, you may prefer the pickup and your spouse or SO
> >the
> >LTD, or vice versa.
> >
> >I'm a recent UNIX convert for a _SERVER_. If my very own, personal
> >workstation had to run it, I'd get out of computing entirely (I'm using
> >NT).
> >My wife prefers Win 95 (she used to be a diehard DOS fan). This is _my_
> >decision and _her_ decision. You may think we're (insert cuss-words of
> >your
> >choice here) for feeling this way, and that's fine. I'm certainly not
> >going
> >to force or convince you to use NT, or DOS, or even UNIX -- please give
> >me
> >the same courtesy.
>