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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For example, Cygwin is likely to be supported indefinitely whereas MS could pull the plug at any time on SFU.
In all seriousness, a dedicated client group could keep SFU going -- the essence of it is the POSIX subsystem, since that is implemented and GCC is available the options are endless. You are corrent that port will keep coming for Cygwin. I don't know the status of the Interop Systems Interix archive with relation to Microsoft, but they seem fairly dedicated to making SFU useful.
Anyone seen MS Internet Explorer for Unix recently?
Heh, not quite the same, but: http://www.opsys.com/products/sco/ (scroll to the bottom of the page)