Star Review of Windows Services for UNIX 3.5
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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RE: Cygwin
by Gil Bates on Wed 21st Jan 2004 23:56 UTC

"...Cygwin is the best Unix-on-Windows I have ever seen. Use anything else and you are just wasting you time!!!"

LOL! SFU is currently in the running as a finalist for "best of show" at the LinuxWorld Expo right now (in the area of "best integration software"). It will probably win again, just like it did last year.

SFU pretty much kills Cygwin for any serious Unix-on-Windows requirements. Even LinuxWorld admits that.