May 11, 2017 Recommends steps to take before you install Windows XP Service Pack 3. Also includes troubleshooting information. Cygwin is not: a way to run native Linux apps on Windows. You must rebuild your application from source if you want it to run on Windows. A way to magically make native Windows apps aware of UNIX® functionality like signals, ptys, etc. Again, you need to build your apps from source if you want to take advantage of Cygwin functionality.

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Hi, i have read that beginning this month Cygwin wants to drop support for Windows XP. Though the home page and FAQ entry 12 do not talk about this. Are they out of date or is WinXP still supported? Although there are better OSes now, WinXP is still a good OS. Especially for virtual machines, because of its low memory foot print. Only just 220 MiB for the OS!

So while i feel it's not fair to beg you to go through all the complexities of still supporting it, i want to ask: - If there is no support anymore for Win XP (SP3), is there a reposi- tory around, where one can download the last version of Cygwin that supported WinXP (SP3)? - If not, how can i do it by myself? Will i have to create a mirror and not update it? Or would i have to download the current version somehow? Thank you very much for the great work. Cygwin makes Windows complete if you ask me. Herbert - Problem reports: FAQ: Documentation: Unsubscribe info.

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Hello - I am also new to the LINUX world and would like very much to see XP 'live forever'. I still use XP as my main 'go to' machine. Microsoft's continuing 'march to bigger and better' and my reluctance to be forced to repeatedly buy new bigger and faster machinery to accommodate the new windows systems has nudged me out of my complacency - I am now using Cygwin and learning LINUX. If Cygwin continues to support XP, it will continue to serve as 'that bright city on a hill', giving us old Microsoft Ludditess a comfortable 'stepping stone' that encourages us to switch to LINUX. Terry McCarty wa5nti Herbert Stocker wrote.

Hii have read that beginning this month Cygwin wants to drop support for Windows XP. Though the home page and FAQ entry 12 do not talk about this. Are they out of date or is WinXP still supported? Although there are better OSes now, WinXP is still a good OS. Especially for virtual machines, because of its low memory foot print. Only just 220 MiB for the OS!

So while i feel it's not fair to beg you to go through all the complexities of still supporting it, i want to ask: - If there is no support anymore for Win XP (SP3), is there a reposi- tory around, where one can download the last version of Cygwin that supported WinXP (SP3)? - If not, how can i do it by myself?

Will i have to create a mirror and not update it? Or would i have to download the current version somehow? Thank you very much for the great work. Cygwin makes Windows complete if you ask me. Herbert - Problem reports: FAQ: Documentation: Unsubscribe info: - Problem reports: FAQ: Documentation: Unsubscribe info. No software version can live forever, specially if it is a security programs (OpenSSL, LibreSSL, GnuPG.) or programs and applications that need the first ones, and that includes Operative Systems and Kernel.

And that's not a Microsoft thing, Linux as well has it. Linux Kernel LTS support is 2-3 years, for Debian is 1 year after release of next stable version, Ubuntu is 5 years and 9 months for STS and both LinuxMint and Trisquel 5 years as well. At least Windows XP got 13 years of support and since Windows Vista its 10 years. On 2016-01-10 at 23:32, Terry McCarty - WA5NTI wrote. I've been using cygwin on XP (SP2 and then SP3), both 32 bit and 64 bit, for ages now.

I actually tried upgrading once, but had to go back to what I am currently running because cron was broken. It refused to start, no matter what. After returning to the previous install, it started right up. The main pieces that I use, zsh, cron and the basic commands (like ls and ps), are all that I need. I've written several z-shell scripts to do the things that I need.

So, even if XP support is pulled, I'm good. Cygwin has been really great for making the two XP boxes worth running. I've been a Unix/Linux user/admin for decades.

MB On Sun, Jan 10, 2016 at 05:32:21PM -0500, Terry McCarty - WA5NTI wrote. Hello - I am also new to the LINUX world and would like very much to see XP 'live forever'.

I still use XP as my main 'go to' machine. Microsoft's continuing 'march to bigger and better' and my reluctance to be forced to repeatedly buy new bigger and faster machinery to accommodate the new windows systems has nudged me out of my complacency - I am now using Cygwin and learning LINUX. If Cygwin continues to support XP, it will continue to serve as 'that bright city on a hill', giving us old Microsoft Ludditess a comfortable 'stepping stone' that encourages us to switch to LINUX. - Terry McCarty wa5nti Herbert Stocker wrote: Hii have read that beginning this month Cygwin wants to drop support for Windows XP. Though the home page and FAQ entry 12 do not talk about this.

Are they out of date or is WinXP still supported? Although there are better OSes now, WinXP is still a good OS. Especially for virtual machines, because of its low memory foot print. Only just 220 MiB for the OS! So while i feel it's not fair to beg you to go through all the complexities of still supporting it, i want to ask: - If there is no support anymore for Win XP (SP3), is there a reposi- tory around, where one can download the last version of Cygwin that supported WinXP (SP3)? - If not, how can i do it by myself? Will i have to create a mirror and not update it?

Or would i have to download the current version somehow? Thank you very much for the great work. Cygwin makes Windows complete if you ask me.

Herbert - Problem reports: FAQ: Documentation: Unsubscribe info: - Problem reports: FAQ: Documentation: Unsubscribe info: - e-mail: / The ASCII (140 char limit) / Ribbon Campaign Visit - URL: X Against / HTML Email 'What do you say Beckett. Wanna have a baby?' - Castle to Det.

Beckett 'How long have I been gone?' Alexis after seeing Castle and Beckett w/ baby - Castle - 11/25/13 - Problem reports: FAQ: Documentation: Unsubscribe info. On Jan 10 13:12, Herbert Stocker wrote: Hii have read that beginning this month Cygwin wants to drop support for Windows XP. Though the home page and FAQ entry 12 do not talk about this. Are they out of date or is WinXP still supported? So far, nothing has changed, XP is still supported. I intend to pull the plug at one point this year, but it also depends on how much time I have.

Continuing support for XP and Server 2003 is really becoming a burden. It requires to code and maintain workarounds which are not required anymore in newer OSes, so I really would like to get rid of that stuff. - If there is no support anymore for Win XP (SP3), is there a reposi- tory around, where one can download the last version of Cygwin that supported WinXP (SP3)? Not yet, but the Cygwin time machine might be what you're looking for in future: Corinna - Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat. On Jan 10 13:12, Herbert Stocker wrote: Hi, i have read that beginning this month Cygwin wants to drop support for Windows XP.

Though the home page and FAQ entry 12 do not talk about this. Are they out of date or is WinXP still supported? So far, nothing has changed, XP is still supported. I intend to pull the plug at one point this year, but it also depends on how much time I have.

Continuing support for XP and Server 2003 is really becoming a burden. The Cygwin support for XP is very much appreciated as the latest Windows releases are not really ready for prime time office work yet. Windows 10 is making some headway in this respect.

I'd like to say a sincere thank you to Corina (and the rest of the team) for supporting XP for this long, and I hope she stays so busy the issue of removing XP support never becomes a priority.:) - Problem reports: FAQ: Documentation: Unsubscribe info. On Jan 11, 2016, at 4:52 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Continuing support for XP and Server 2003 is really becoming a burden. It requires to code and maintain workarounds which are not required anymore in newer OSes, so I really would like to get rid of that stuff. I seem to recall you saying that Vista added a fork-like facility to the kernel which might let Cygwin implement a copy-on-write fork(2).

Would dropping XP support allow that? If so, that would probably speed Cygwin up quite a bit in many common use cases: running autoconf configure scripts, Makefiles, etc. Problem reports: FAQ: Documentation: Unsubscribe info. On Jan 10, 2016, at 5:12 AM, Herbert Stocker wrote: WinXP is still a good OS. That was only true while Microsoft was maintaining it.

Now there are many known security vulnerabilities which will never be patched. I expect there are other problems with it, too, like incorrect time zone support in parts of the world that have changed their time zone rules since the discontinuation of support.

Especially for virtual machines, because of its low memory foot print. No argument, but memory and disk usage can’t be the primary concern. If that’s all we’re concerned with, we’d still be running Windows NT 3.51. Problem reports: FAQ: Documentation: Unsubscribe info. On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 9:38 AM, wilson wrote: I'd like to say a sincere thank you to Corina (and the rest of the team) for supporting XP for this long, and I hope she stays so busy the issue of removing XP support never becomes a priority.:) I rather expect it will more be a matter of a bug fix or enhancement that would require significant additional coding to maintain XP/2003 support will be the trigger for cutting off XP/2003 support.

Erik - Problem reports: FAQ: Documentation: Unsubscribe info. On Jan 11, 2016, at 4:52 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Continuing support for XP and Server 2003 is really becoming a burden. It requires to code and maintain workarounds which are not required anymore in newer OSes, so I really would like to get rid of that stuff. I seem to recall you saying that Vista added a fork-like facility to the kernel which might let Cygwin implement a copy-on-write fork(2).

Would dropping XP support allow that? Unfortunately not. Effectively I begged for it on the Windows MSDN forums and in private communication with Microsoft, but to no avail for technical reasons. The fork-like function (called RtlCloneUserProcess) does not work reliably with Win32 processes. The problem is not the function itself, but the way certain Win32 DLLs are initialized at startup.

The DLL initialization code won't do the right thing anymore in the child process and thus stuff doesn't work in the child. E.g., the connection to the console Window is broken in the child and no AllocConsole or AttachConsole call will resurrect it. Corinna - Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat. On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 2:59 PM, cyg Simple wrote: Arguments like this is the reason I had to spend years searching through COBOL code for 2 digit years. Old habits seem hard to die. Either upgrade or forever pay the penalty yourself to keep the old code running. Actually I agree wholeheartedly, which is why I I'll make my own frozen mirror, and deal with whatever happens after that myself.

Since these environments are frozen and isolated, I have not had any problems. This is also something I only do for my own personal environments; I won't consider it for public production. Erik - Problem reports: FAQ: Documentation: Unsubscribe info. On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 2:59 PM, cyg Simple wrote: Arguments like this is the reason I had to spend years searching through COBOL code for 2 digit years. Old habits seem hard to die. Either upgrade or forever pay the penalty yourself to keep the old code running.

Actually I agree wholeheartedly, which is why I I'll make my own frozen mirror, and deal with whatever happens after that myself. Since these environments are frozen and isolated, I have not had any problems. This is also something I only do for my own personal environments; I won't consider it for public production. I believe Corinna mentioned (and I will re-interate here) that the 'Cygwin Time Machine' is at your service. It contains every(.) snapshot (circa) release of Cygwin, should you happen to need something from the past. I don't tend to advertise this much, but it is publicly available.:) (.) well, as far back as v1.3.12-4 (2002/02) - Erik - -= Peter A.

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Key features Connections and remote access: Cygwin supports X Display Manager remote connections and remote clients. Its uses the openssh package, Cygwin sshd or ssh X11 tunneling to display contents of application from the computer. Multi-windows mode: this feature allows the user to manage both the client's and his own window.

Indeed, this action can be done remotely and display both windows in the user's screen. Compatibility: this software can deal with all recent Windows platform starting from XP SP3. In addition to that, it works either on x86 32 bit and 64 bits versions of Windows. Pros Cygwin is also provided with development tools such as GNU Emacs, LaTeX and OpenSSH (client and server). The program is proposed here as an open source.

Cygwin supports all Windows colors. Cons It requires a large disc space.