Greetings, LMH! > Sorry for the confusion. It is probably better classified as a Linux > emulator.
It's not more an emulator, than WINE. Which is NOT an emulator. > I think of it more or less as a virtualized OS, Which is totally wrong thought. It's not virtualized, it's exactly opposite. Pretty much naturalized. you could even share handles between Cygwin and non-Cygwin processes. > but that's not exactly right either (I don't think it has it's own kernel, > etc). > I meant to make an analogy of the different between installing and > configuring an OS, and installing/configuring/using applications that > run on the OS, to point out that the previous post was more like the > latter. I guess I didn't do that very well. Well, Cygwin in essence is a library. cygwin1.dll the rest is a collection of tools built over it. But they are hardly necessary, if you don't need them. Also, please don't top-post. Thank you. -- WBR, Andrey Repin (anrdae...@freemail.ru) 13.07.2012, <05:10> Sorry for my terrible english... -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
