This is the mail archive of the
cygwin@cygwin.com
mailing list for the Cygwin project.
Re: MS offers "Services For Unix" free of charge
On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 04:36:17PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 04:26:03PM -0500, Robb, Sam wrote:
> >> But beyond curiosity, there's not many reasons to install and
> >> use both, at least concurrently. Cygwin and SFU both address
> >> the same needs and Cygwin covers a wider range of tools. We'll
> >> see what happens though.
> >One thing that Cygwin does lack, and SFU has, is an NFS client :-/
> >I know that alone will probably entice me into taking a look at
> >SFU.
> It would be rather interesting to add nfs to cygwin. We could develop
> filesystem "plug-ins" which could be generalized for stuff like NFS,
> EXTFS, etc.
>
> Didn't someone say they had a free month? Perfect project. :-)
Actually, I'd already been thinking about it - I think I'll be sending a
copyright assignment shortly..
rlc
--
Immortality consists largely of boredom.
-- Zefrem Cochrane, "Metamorphosis", stardate 3219.8
--
Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html
Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/