This download is a self-extracting archive of the beta copy of the Windows Services for UNIX 3.5 product.
Windows Services for UNIX Version 3.5 Beta
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This is very interesting for me, because I currently have 3.0 installed, but nowhere in microsoft.com can I find out what, exactly, has changed and is new in version 3.5. Do I have to install it first in order to find a readme.txt that tells me this? That’s crazy, but if it is true, could someone out there give us a synopsis of what is new and different after they install it?
That product contains “viral”, free, GPL-licensed code
You aint supposed to talk about it, even less read changelogs…
If you look in “unzip” in BaseUtilsusrcontribin you will see this text: “OpenBSD: strcpy.c,v 1.4 1996/08/19 08:34:14 tholo”, “OpenBSD: strlen.c,v 1.3 1996/08/19 08:34:19 tholo”, and more. Nice of Theo de Raadt to contribute to Microsoft’s Interix SDK.
The GNU compiler is there (SDKoptgcc.3.3in) – so much for all the trash talking of GNU! It has XFree86. It has Perl. It has TCL. I was surprised not to find Apache and PostGreSQL.
You will find the newest builds of Apache and PostgreSQL for Interix here: http://www.interopsystems.com/
Actually, I mean here:
http://www.interopsystems.com/tools/warehouse.htm
XFree86 is not GPL
This is hillarious
/me laugh @ Microsoft.
What’s hilarious?
…it is important to understand that the Beta release of any product will not display the stability of a shipped Microsoft product
Hee hee.
use a mac.
What advantages does this have over running Cgywin?
that review is too short, i have not much of a clue
what sort of services that will offer. cant you be a
bit more verbose on such things?
This is not a review. You can read two reviews of version 3.0 here: http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=3886