MS offers "Services For Unix" free of charge

[Harold L Hunt II]

Well, I don't know about the rest of you, but since SFU comes with a 
great (and free) X Server, I am throwing in the towel.

Harold

Larry Hall wrote:
> Actually, this has always been a potential issue, since SFU has been around
> for a while.  The biggest conflicts, beyond path clashes which we 
> unequivocally state must be resolved by putting Cygwin first in the path, 
> are likely to be services.  But, so far, we haven't seen lots of complaints 
> here about SFU clashes.  Maybe we'll see more now that it's free to download 
> and use.  Or maybe SFU just works well with Cygwin. ;-)  But beyond 
> curiosity, there's not many reasons to install and use both, at least 
> concurrently.  Cygwin and SFU both address the same needs and Cygwin covers 
> a wider range of tools.  We'll see what happens though.
> 
> Larry
> 
> 
> At 02:43 PM 1/14/2004, Robb, Sam you wrote:
> 
>>Thought this might interest some of the folks who frequent
>>this list... particularly those who have to support Cygwin
>>installations, and might now have to deal with a parallel
>>(conflicting?) install of SFU :-/
>>
>>-Samrobb
>>
>><http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=17300643>
>>
>>Microsoft Offers Linux-Interoperability Software For Free
>>Jan. 13, 2004
>>
>>Microsoft has decided to drop the $99 licensing fee previously
>>required for its Services For Unix software and plans to make
>>a new version of the interoperability product available this
>>week at no cost on its Web site.
>>
>>...
>>
>>The three main components of SFU--Unix's Network File System
>>and Network Identity Service and Microsoft's Interix layer of
>>Posix APIs--have all been tuned for better performance, with
>>some commands running 50% faster, Oldroyd says. SFU 3.5 also
>>features first-time support for P-Threads (for Posix-compliant
>>multithreaded applications), a broader set of Posix APIs, and
>>updated utilities and libraries.

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