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> Probably you know about Interix (sold to Microsoft). Yes. I've worked with their developers on some common projects. > But Interix was based on Cygwin No, it isn't. Interix has absolutely no cygwin sources in it at all. Perhaps you mistakenly think that tools like gcc and binutils originate in cygwin? They don't. Interix, like Cygwin (and Linux, DJGPP, and many other systems), is based on the GNU tools, and we share some common functionality (like support for the PE executable format), but the runtimes have absolutely nothing in common, and will never have anything in common, because the projects have different goals. Cygwin is a POSIX emulator for the Win32 subsystem, and Interix is a POSIX *subsystem* that sits directly on the NT core kernel. From their own points of view, they are running on two completely different "operating systems". > P.S> Why FAQ desolated ?? Because the cygwin project relies on volunteers like you to make it better. Nobody has yet volunteered to make that part better. Please feel free to volunteer - even the smallest patch - even fixing a single typo - is helpful. -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
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