[clug] FOSS and Linux features

[Brad Hards]

On Saturday 11 November 2006 15:38, Michael Cohen wrote:
> > I'd suggest leaving it out.
>
> Brad,
>   Cygwin is not only used by die-hard unix folks. In fact most windows
> admins keep some of the cygwin utilities around like find, bash etc. Mostly
> because these tools make admining a windows system almost bearable. With
> the full cygwin suit (includes X11, Xemacs etc) a windows environment is a
> much more powerful platform. It feels like a really slow version of linux -
> and could be a nice intro for windoze users.
We aren't trying to appeal to windows admins - we are trying to appeal to 
normal users.

If you can use XEmacs, then you aren't going to need a website to convince you 
that linux is a viable alternative. 

Brad
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