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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My comments on IE for Unix were all based on second-hand information. I have never actually used it and my personal opinion is just based on what I have been told and read about it. I think ChocolateCheeseCake is the person you are referring to with specific gripes in mind.
As for SFU's long-term viability, there are rumors that MSFT will automatically include SFU by default in future versions of Windows because they bought the specific rights to do exactly this from SCO in addition to the basic rights to some of the the System V code they (apparently) used. Although, if SFU is (mostly?) OpenBSD based, I'm not sure why they had to get involved with SCO anyway...I guess MSFT is taking code from anywhere it can find it or just being cautious.