[Discuss] Essentially all free apps will soon be available onWindows

[Noel Burton-Krahn]

Last December I was at a Beaver meeting (my leader name is Ringtail) that 
went off the rails:

Beaver Andy: You know, the Santa in the malls isn't the real Santa.  He's 
too busy making toys
Beaver Billy:  He is the real Santa!
Beaver Andy: Is NOT!
Beaver Billy:  Is TOO!  and if you don't believe in Santa you're not a 
Christian!

Whoa beavers!

This thread has gone off the rails too.

Going back to the original post: I'm sure CMake is great.  I'll definitely 
look into it when I have to do another build system.  I can't see how a 
build system can help me port a Linux app to Windows though.  Alan, how will 
CMake help me get strace or top or tcpdump running on Windows?

As for getting open source apps on Windows, most are already there: Cygwin, 
Emacs, Perl, Python, Inkscape, Gimp, etc.  You know, if they weren't already 
ported to Windows, I'd run in Linux (in a VM, thank you) much more often.  I 
don't understand how porting apps could make anyone switch from one OS to 
another.

As for the zealotry: lighten up!  Now it's easier to get Open Source on 
Windows, so there's a bigger install base to run open source apps on. 
Remember, open source is bigger than just Linux.

 --Noel







----- Original Message ----- 
From: "George Farris" <farrisg at shaw.ca>
To: <discuss at vlug.org>
Sent: Saturday, February 17, 2007 9:30 AM
Subject: Re: [Discuss] Essentially all free apps will soon be available 
onWindows


> On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 20:36 -0800, Adam Parkin wrote:
>> This isn't a Windows-only problem, try running a old version of Red
>> Hat
>> or Mandrake and see how much support you get.
>
> Well that is just the point.  You can get support for it, there are lots
> of people around that know about those old distros and the source code
> is available.
>
> Just out of curiosity, <politely> you seem to be a die hard Windows
> user, why are you on this list? </politely>
>
>
> -- 
> George Farris
> farrisg at shaw.ca
>
>
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