[NTLUG:Discuss] A 'Halfway' Distribution

[MadHat]

On Fri, 2003-01-24 at 09:11, Merlin wrote:
> Quoting Mike <just_mike_y at yahoo.com>:
> 
> > I ordered my copy of red hat from a CD vendor, and also got 
> > a copy of a distro I hadn't seen before--'GNUWin'. (I 
> > always try at least one distro that I've never seen when 
> > upgrading.) This gem arrived, and it's something I've been 
> > wanting for a while. GNUWin is a sort of preview of what 
> > linux is about without the linux kernal. That is, GNUWin is 
> > about as close to linux as you can get while still booting 
> > the win32 kernal. 
> 
> Another utility/program/environment that does this Cygwin.  I run it on my 
> Win95 box at work and on my WinXP box at home.
> 
> Works real nice, has what amounts to a package manager so you can decide what 
> to install when, and to an extremem novice/newbie everything that I do on Linux 
> (minus X-Windows) works the same under Cygwin.

I run X under CygWin to work on a headless Linux box I have.  I start X
and ssh into the box and startkde and it displays on my laptop, while
running on my server.  

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`But I don't want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked.
`Oh, you can't help that,' said the Cat: `we're all mad here...'
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