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Re: Any distributions in the works?
- To: "Richardson,Anthony" <ARichard at stark dot cc dot oh dot us>
- Subject: Re: Any distributions in the works?
- From: Jim Pick <jim at jimpick dot com>
- Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 19:00:25 -0700
- Cc: "'Gnu-Win32 List'" <gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com>
> Is Gnu-Win32 mature enough for a Linux-type distribution to be feasable?
>
> I would certainly be interested in purchasing a complete distribution
> with
> the base tools, development system, vi, emacs, X, g77, curses, TeX,
> groff, octave, etc. , etc., etc., if the price were right. ($20 or less).
>
> The Linux redhat rpm tools would be a good choice for creating a
> distribution.
>
> Is anyone else interested? (I'm not considering creating one myself,
> but thought that this might prompt others into doing the job.)
>
> Tony Richardson
Klee Dienes and I are planning on attempting to port dpkg (from Debian
GNU/Linux) over to Gnu-Win32 fairly soon. It's a little too early for me to
say whether or not we're going to have enough success with it to start a
full-blown distribution... but we'd sure like to.
Cheers,
- Jim
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