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| author | Brian Inglis <Brian.Inglis@SystematicSW.ab.ca> | 2020-09-18 05:53:35 +0300 |
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| committer | Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu> | 2020-09-18 14:52:24 +0300 |
| commit | 749cbccc55146bdf65a50b71267a16f5bd180334 (patch) | |
| tree | 31961aec7ddb18c94ebd2b2863a06f484de68df9 /winsup/doc/faq-what.xml | |
| parent | 1732249529c3a4d223940fea2b0143e63bb47e3a (diff) | |
winsup/doc/faq-what.xml: FAQ 1.2 Windows versions supported
enumerate Vista, 7, 8, 10 progression to be clear, and earliest server 2008;
add 8.1, exclude S mode, add Cygwin32 on ARM, specify 64 bit only AMD/Intel
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| -rw-r--r-- | winsup/doc/faq-what.xml | 10 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/winsup/doc/faq-what.xml b/winsup/doc/faq-what.xml index ea8496ccb..77ba1c5fd 100644 --- a/winsup/doc/faq-what.xml +++ b/winsup/doc/faq-what.xml @@ -30,12 +30,12 @@ They can be used from one of the provided Unix shells like bash, tcsh or zsh. <question><para>What versions of Windows are supported?</para></question> <answer> -<para>Cygwin can be expected to run on all modern, released versions of Windows. -State January 2016 this includes Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008 and all -later versions of Windows up to Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016. +<para>Cygwin can be expected to run on all modern, released versions of Windows, +from Windows Vista, 7, 8, 8.1, 10, Windows Server 2008 and all +later versions of Windows, except Windows S mode due to its limitations. The 32 bit version of Cygwin also runs in the WOW64 32 bit environment on -released 64 bit versions of Windows, the 64 bit version of course only on -64 bit Windows. +released 64 bit versions of Windows including ARM PCs, +the 64 bit version of course only on 64 bit AMD/Intel compatible PCs. </para> <para>Keep in mind that Cygwin can only do as much as the underlying OS supports. Because of this, Cygwin will behave differently, and |