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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Why SFU can't be installed on XP Home Edition you ask?
For the very same reason you can't log XPHE to a Domain, or install, say, a DHCP server on it.
Because uncle Bill decided against it.
If an activity is even VAGUELY related to office, business, or corporate networking it is DISABLED on XP Home. Probably the sales rep in Redmond realized that people (like the place I work) are still using win95 clients to log to NT4 domains these days... if they didn't force the upgrade some way their cash flow would be hurt, one day or another...
XP Home actually has LESS networking and office/business related functionalities than Win95. It's just a toy to use for running games at home... or for email/websurfing/docwriting, but if you only do those, better switch to linux or osx and live without the expense AND hassle of antivirus+windowsupdate...
Bye, and have fun,
Renato