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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We tried this one as well as Cygwin/X at work. we were in no way satisfied with SFU:
I installed SFU on a 2GHZ P4, 512MB Ram Machine. After reboot the additional Unix-Layer kinda added about 40% more CPU-Load to my System. After uninstalling it the CPU-Load was gone.
It doesn't include an X-Server / Client. So using X-Applications is impossible. It doesn't include SSH Client and it doesn't include configure or make. Thus, with the lack of make and configure it was quite difficult to compile anything (like for example ssh).
Cygwin/X, on the other hand, came with a nice wm (twm), an X-Server / Client, configure, make, a shitload of utilities and didn't add CPU-Load to my system in any way.
Both systems (cygwin as well as sfu) did allow me to see / use Windows-Tasks just like Unix-Tasks (i.e. using ps i could gather Task-information).
Something i couldn't achieve in Cygwin but achieved in SFU though was the ability to access the complete Windows-Filesystem though i.E. the bash. I couldn't find it mounted or something like that in Cygwin - does anyone know if it's possible to achieve that?