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RE: CygWin Installation


On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, Steve Fairbairn wrote:

> I assume you never did an early slackware linux install then.

You considder the early Slackware installs difficult, eh??  Hah!  Those
were easy (I did many an install of the early Slackware from floppy
images (and I still like & use Slackware today!)).  Try installing some
of the early AIX's on early RS/6000 hardware, or better yet, AIX V2 on
the IBM PC/RT's (and yes, I did/do both).  

By comparison, the Cygwin installer is quite nice and easy to use.  Those
people who believe installing should be a turn-key operation should
realize that "choice is good" :)

> Steve.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: subensky [mailto:subensky@lvcm.com]
> Sent: 31 January 2003 15:59
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: CygWin Installation
> 
> 
> In over 30 years of computer/it experience I have never seen anything as
> convoluted and
> difficult to use as your CygWin download/installer.
> 
> Sy Bensky
> subensky@lvcm.com
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