Linked by Roberto J. Dohnert on Wed 21st Jan 2004 18:55 UTC
As many of you may remember I did a review of Windows Services for UNIX 3.0 (SFU) a few months ago. I remember being frustrated with that release because it seemed to me that all Microsoft did was throw something together just to be able to say "Hey look, we have this". I thought, since Microsoft released version 3.5, I would revisit and see what changes were done with it. I downloaded the beta version a while back and from the beta I was very impressed with the improvements that Microsoft made. Being a beta version it was buggy and some things just didnt quite work. I finally got the final version of the OpenBSD-based SFU 3.5 and this release makes dynamic leaps and bounds over previous releases of this software package. I am glad to see a lot more work was put into this release.
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I think he meant that a crash within Cygwin can potentially bring down all of Cygwin, not the entire system. But it's hard to say, I've never had Cygwin fail on me that way, but I only use its tools and rarely compile code with it.
I'm interested in how SFU handles the NFS shares. Its the only "free" system that I know of that offers an NFS client for Windows.
Shame they don't offer an X Windows server as well, but that was a strategic decision I think.