From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OqzLh-0006UP-5F for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 02 Sep 2010 02:16:21 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3C056E0819; Thu, 2 Sep 2010 02:14:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-iw0-f181.google.com (mail-iw0-f181.google.com [209.85.214.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 231F8E0819 for ; Thu, 2 Sep 2010 02:14:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: by iwn39 with SMTP id 39so8001592iwn.40 for ; Wed, 01 Sep 2010 19:14:52 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:date:message-id :subject:from:to:content-type; bh=HO9pyFETpN7SP5HsWxHTfU5W78rIOK/jqQbrux/dvOg=; b=CZti89SwJgZkn1oTKBIffyy97F7J2aO0WBXc67AxJGgKFiNUsRH0DaEjH6egY1BlYn 5L6ahVhIQWzUL1hhABDavK2KjWA7GRQf5/l8ZEElREAy7UPordAN0Qp9ewFeR7Inp3mV 8iZi0nfB3UO8R2Fc6k5WQKbyRm0rLtNAiCjg0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; b=A0ub+UWHtgmD2oFcmaHHgJdwhuzUceKKWzkIXRQgHB8xZPTZ6blsrHcDwGEOPfeTTX D6XdugYNeSZ2QXj8roiv7Ac3KOLhHefcxfPsuf2ZcNOeP+uD7gCnm3fvmxN0pXCYcB79 PAgt8xK2EmHwWnBNeHIaNObY8dR7TIRzBkHxc= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.231.14.5 with SMTP id e5mr8685545iba.175.1283393692720; Wed, 01 Sep 2010 19:14:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.231.37.138 with HTTP; Wed, 1 Sep 2010 19:14:52 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2010 04:14:52 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: [gentoo-user] Contest: Gentoo Prefix on Cygwin From: Al To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Archives-Salt: 22445abc-502f-44cf-9b6a-daa4f7c3ae12 X-Archives-Hash: fc657605957c7b47f923e6a7b1fef488 Do you understand the idea of Java -- having a common runtime layer to run your program on any OS? But the Java is limited to Java. Cygwin on the other hand brings the whole Posix environmet to windows. But then the Cygwin administration tool is limited to windows. The answer from Gentoo Prefix: Take it and run it anywhere. Compile your binaries yourself with Emerge administration tool -- for any OS. There is still one missing link. While Gentoo prefix already runs on enterprise versions of windows by use of Interix, it is not available for the common user. Let's start a contest to bring Gentoo Prefix to the masses! Be the first human ever who sucessfully runs a fullblown Gentoo Prefix on Cygwin! I have done the initial research to prove that this is possible. You find the basic instructions here: http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Prefix/Cygwin. Now the race is open be the first one, who really does it. There are still some quests to be resolved by you. Your mission: Sucessfully run "emerge -e system" on Cygwin! Intersted to take part in the conetst? Then send an answer to this posting. Hope to find some people to join in and have fun. Al