Linked by Adam S on Tue 9th Aug 2005 15:15 UTC
At this week's LinuxWorld conference, Microsoft officials are slated to talk up the Services for Unix features that the company is integrating into the Windows Server 2003 R2.
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Member since:SFU provides a POSIX subsystem, which is a *native* extension of the OS itself, just like win32 is, and *not* an slow emulator like cygwin.
Cygwin is an emulator? Do tell. That's news to me. I'm all ears.
Go ahead...evidence if you've got it. Please keep idle speculation to yourself and use standard definitions not the ones that come out of lower orifices/body cavities.
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SFU provides a POSIX subsystem, which is a *native* extension of the OS itself, just like win32 is, and *not* an slow emulator like cygwin.
It comes with a bunch of GNU utils and a build environment based on BSD.
I used it extensively while learning POSIX API, since all linux dev tools look like crap, and none can compare to Ultraedit-32 & Visual Studio
Basically any POSIX-compatible app can be built from sources....see what these guys offer:
http://www.interopsystems.com/tools/warehouse.htm
POSIX environment subsystem was removed since winXP, in order to reduce attack surface, although some shitty version is present in win2k.
SFU is really a great product, and i think it should be more marketed. cygwin is much more popular, but is just a plain shitty emulator.