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  1. Re:"Satan get thee behind me" Jeremiah Cornelius by Jeremiah+Cornelius · · Score: 1 · on EA Is the Game Company Disney Was Looking For

    Of course.

    I used Cygwin the whole time I was at M$... And I used Interix/SFU/SUA or whatever they called it, after there was a whole Deb distro ported.

    https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=274

    http://debian-interix.net/

    Looks like the Deb stopped updating in 2009. I would have been using it until 2010. It worked, with a XMingX server - which I preferred over CygwinX.
    http://www.straightrunning.com/XmingNotes/

  2. Re:KDE on Windows? by gfody · · Score: 1 · on Ask Slashdot: Spoof an Email Bounce With Windows?

    Cygwin and Msys are basically pointless. Windows already has a native UNIX subsystem with a strong user community and a couple flavors of Linux. There's even a reverse WINE for binaries that can't be compiled for Interix.

  3. Re:Awesome News for Microsoft by shutdown+-p+now · · Score: 2, Interesting · on OpenOffice.org Declares Independence From Oracle, Becomes LibreOffice

    Z:\> apt-get install ms-office

    'apt-get' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
    operable program or batch file.

    http://www.debian-interix.net/

  4. Re:Please educate me a bit. by david.given · · Score: 1 · on Benchmarks of Debian GNU/kFreeBSD vs. GNU/Linux

    This link provides a one page summary of each attempted Debian port...

    Don't forget the unofficial Debian ports; one really interesting one is Debian Interix, which is a Debian userland on top of Microsoft's Unix layer for Windows. It hasn't had a lot of activity recently because it's mainly run by one guy, and Interix doesn't get a lot of bugfix love from Microsoft (surprise surprise), but compared to the abomination that is Cygwin it's already light-years ahead. All it needs is a decent community...

  5. Re:Microsoft Hate by Lt_Kernal · · Score: 1 · on AV-Test Deems Windows Security Essentials "Very Good"

    Bzzt. SFU is no longer a seperate product. It's part of Windows now, in Windows Server 2003 R2 and above - which includes Vista, Windows Server 2008, and Windows 7.

    It's called the Subsystem for UNIX-based Applications (SUA). Relevant TechNet link: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc786798(WS.10).aspx

    Here's a good Wikipedia article on the product, showing the history from Interix, to SFU, to SUA: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interix

    There's even a Debian port for it: http://debian-interix.net/

  6. Re:Boring... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Debian Gets FreeBSD Kernel Support

    Wait no more:

    http://debian-interix.net/

  7. Re:Sounds Great! by Hatta · · Score: 1 · on Testing the KDE 4.2 Release Candidate, On Windows

    That's actually pretty cool. Apparently there's a port of Debian to Interix even. I might check this out at home.

    I gather this works on top of SFU? Last I checked, installing SFU required registering with microsoft and providing a lot of personal info. Has this changed?