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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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?
In bash try
cd C:
and you should find yourself in the regular windows fs. It has a strange absolute cygwin path which I don't remember. I actually was so unsatisfied with cygwin that I now run FreeBSD inside vmware! Two things annoyed me about cygwin, the lack of a proper xterm *with antialiased fonts*, and the lack of ported software using the cygwin package system. Something like *fink* for cygwin would be cool, since the cygwin package system just doesn't cut it.