Sounds like a good idea. It's just a matter of priorities. You are probably
the best placed person to do it, especially when Duncan finishes setting up
the multi-boot machine.
...David
-----Original Message-----
From: Rankin, SE (Stephen) [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 03 November 2003 15:30
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: The future of RedHat
All,
We do not have to make the decision to support all these Linux distributions
now. But an assessment of the complexity would have to be done after
everything is under CVS with ./configure. It is who/how (and the time it
will take) for the initial assessment that is important now (I think).
We could initially test on a multi-boot system at RAL, and if the problems
are not too bad, then everyone can take up a distribution. I suppose it
would be down to me to do the initial assessment, and report problems. Dave
G. may not agree with this suggestion?
Steve.
-----Original Message-----
From: Rankin, SE (Stephen) [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 03 November 2003 14:59
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: The future of RedHat
> get the whole of the software built under MSW (using Cygwin).
Sorry.
I did read somewhere that Microsoft used some BSD code in earlier Windows
versions!
Steve.
-----Original Message-----
From: Peter W. Draper [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 03 November 2003 14:52
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: The future of RedHat
On Mon, 3 Nov 2003, Rankin, SE (Stephen) wrote:
> I am trying to get Cygwin installed on one system at RAL. We can then try
to
> get the whole of the software built under MSW.
Good luck, you'll need it (and a Posix shell, X server, my hack of HDS
etc.).
Seriously, Cygwin is possible, but MSW! Not unless it's secretly been
converted to run over UNIX (like Mac OS X).
Cheers,
Peter.
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