From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: dann@ics.uci.edu, eliz@gnu.org, Angelo.Graziosi@roma1.infn.it,
"d.henman" <dhenman@gmail.com>,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Failure in building Emacs 23.0.50 on Cygwin (fwd)
Date: Sun, 09 Sep 2007 10:17:57 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <85ejh8s156.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1IUCJM-0000k5-N0@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Stallman's message of "Sat\, 08 Sep 2007 22\:14\:08 -0400")
Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
> Thanks from all of us unfortunate ones who have to use cygwin.
>
> You don't have to use Cygwin; you can replace Losedows with GNU/Linux
> or BSD. Defenestrate your computer!
I object against defenestration of my computer: I find windows very
handy as long as they are not capitalized.
Anyway, from what one hears, Cygwin is a great missionary for free
operating systems: it gets people hooked on free software running at a
quarter of the speed (when we are talking about heavily I/O bound
applications like version control systems). And it teaches people to
hate CRLF line endings, too.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-09 8:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-02 22:10 Failure in building Emacs 23.0.50 on Cygwin (fwd) Angelo Graziosi
2007-09-02 22:50 ` d.henman
2007-09-02 23:40 ` Angelo Graziosi
2007-09-03 0:23 ` d.henman
2007-09-04 16:20 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2007-09-04 20:41 ` Angelo Graziosi
2007-09-04 20:53 ` Angelo Graziosi
2007-09-04 21:36 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2007-09-05 8:53 ` Angelo Graziosi
2007-09-05 17:38 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2007-09-05 19:58 ` Angelo Graziosi
2007-09-05 20:22 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2007-09-05 20:40 ` Angelo Graziosi
2007-09-05 20:54 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2007-09-06 10:09 ` Angelo Graziosi
2007-09-06 16:26 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2007-09-06 23:26 ` d.henman
2007-09-07 4:06 ` Jashy
2007-09-08 7:05 ` d.henman
[not found] ` <E1IUCJM-0000k5-N0@fencepost.gnu.org>
2007-09-09 8:17 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2007-09-09 20:06 ` Richard Stallman
2007-09-09 21:31 ` Angelo Graziosi
2007-09-10 16:52 ` Richard Stallman
2007-09-09 22:27 ` d.henman
2007-09-10 1:13 ` Richard Stallman
2007-09-08 7:21 ` d.henman
2007-09-07 3:58 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2007-09-07 8:04 ` NEW failure in building Emacs 23.0.50 on Cygwin Angelo Graziosi
2007-09-07 20:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-09-07 23:38 ` Angelo Graziosi
2007-09-05 9:32 ` Failure in building Emacs 23.0.50 on Cygwin (fwd) Andreas Schwab
2007-09-05 9:44 ` d.henman
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2007-09-05 20:11 Angelo Graziosi
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