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Re: Hosting the Debian/kCygwin port?
- From: David Given <dg at cowlark dot com>
- To: Sjors Gielen <mailinglist at dazjorz dot com>
- Cc: debian-devel at lists dot debian dot org, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 00:08:25 +0000
- Subject: Re: Hosting the Debian/kCygwin port?
- References: <49751189.5050609@dazjorz.com>
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Sjors Gielen wrote:
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> I'm working on a project porting the Debian tools to Cygwin.
Yes, yes, I know I'm replying to a post over a month old. Nevertheless,
I recently found something that's relevant:
http://debian-interix.net/
This is a Debian port on top of Interix, a.k.a. Microsoft Services for
Unix, the unix-alike that runs on the NT kernel. Unlike Cygwin it
doesn't go through the win32 layer and so doesn't need all the emulation
layers, which gives it (allegedly) much better I/O throughput, proper
case sensitive filenames, inode semantics, etc.
While installation is still a bit tortuous, they have a buildd and claim
to support a decent number of packages...
Is this of interest to anyone?
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David Given
dg@cowlark.com
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