heads up, folks: random vnc (remote desktop) attempts
Christopher Chan
christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk
Mon Feb 16 07:45:59 UTC 2009
Lie Ryan wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Feb 2009 00:54:54 -0200, Norberto Bensa wrote:
>
>
>> On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 12:37 AM, H.S. <hs.samix at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Does Canonical provide anything similar to Cygwin?
>>>
>> Yes. Ubuntu :-)
>>
>> I know, I know... I just couldn't resist :-)
>>
>
> What do you (Norberto Bensa) mean by "providing anything similar to
> Cygwin"? Cygwin's purpose is to provide POSIX environment (i.e. Unix/
> Linux environment) to Windows. Since Ubuntu is 100% Linux, it already
> fully POSIX. I think you might have meant whether there is a program that
> provide Windows' Environment in Ubuntu, in that case it is "wine".
>
>
I beg to differ. Linux is not fully posix. Any UNIX operating system is
fully posix but not GNU/Linux.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POSIX
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