Linked by Roberto J. Dohnert on Wed 21st Jan 2004 18:55 UTC
General Unix 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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Good ol' Unix apps
by David Straight on Wed 21st Jan 2004 22:31 UTC

I have just started using http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ on a windows 2000 box at work. They are native binaries that don't need an emulation layer. It may not be a complete unix environment but I get all the tools I miss from unix.