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Windows Services For Unix Now Free Of Charge
pole writes "Version 3.5 of Services for Unix will be free. Previously, it was $99. This article at Information Week has the details. It contains an NFS client and server in addition to POSIX libraries and utilities including pthreads. Aside from the NFS utilities, how does the environment compare to Cygwin?" An anonymous reader adds links to coverage at News.com and at geek.com, writing "The reviews for these tools have been highly favorable. It looks like the next volley has been fired in the struggle between Windows and Linux."
It's really "unix services" for "Windows". They can't even get the name right - what else did they screw up at the forge of Mordor?
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Well heck, I guess to make this fair we are going to have to impliment SMB support.
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So now the answer is "free". I'm not saying I like Windows servers over Unix-style boxen - but this was a good business choice for MS.
Of course, that's just my opinion. I could be wrong.
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Wow, what a great acronym, and I'm quite surprised that they seem to be actually using it externall!
Anyone who disagrees with microsoft can just SFU! I mean, install SFU from microsoft.com.
(Just in case somebody missed it, SFU = Shut the F**k Up.)
What next? Will they start giving away web browsers for free?
This great news for those windows users out there. It will be surely provide much needed apps for this upstart operating system. Now, whenever someone says, "Windows? But what can I do with it?" you can point out that they can run their favorite unix apps.
Know what I like about atheists? I've yet to meet one that believes God is on their side.
Impossible.
..as he mentions that "very few of our customers are going to have a pure Unix or pure Windows environment".
Previously, I used to think that at least half of the MS customers or so would have a pure Unix environment. Thanks for enlightening me, Dennis!
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POSIX environment... C compiler... you know, it should be possible to get my depenguinator to work here.
I'm not sure about being able to write the filesystem image to disk, Windows might not allow that.
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Ah, yes. The Welsh-centric fork of Cygwin.
taken! (by Davidleeroth) Thanks Bingo Foo!
it is ported to Windows. (BTW... Got this from some other post on Slashdot a long time ago)
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SCO loses all money trying to protect their IP and is forced to sell all corporate assets.
MS buys UNIX patents for pennies on the peso and equipped with UNIX & Windows declares "Operation Freedom" vs Novell and their SuSE/Ximian alliance.
World domination is it's own motivation.
Salesman: I broke my cup holder.
IT Guy: Reboot and see if it gets better.
Sometimes, it's the clueless and the stubborn. Nobody wins in that situation, except Microsoft.
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I've already heard it as STFU...
Anyway, it's still better than the Critical Update Notification Tool.
``Instead, they'll just SFU - it costs nothing, and it lets me run Apache/PHP/MySql, or whatever.''
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You're kidding, right? These have all been ported to win32.
By the way, does anyone else have the feeling that SFU would more appropriately be called SFW? (which could be expanded to Services For Windows, Software Finally Working,
Please correct me if I got my facts wrong.
What do you want them to do?
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What do you want them to do?
I've got a suggestion, but this is a family forum.
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Ah! I see the next quarter's marketing materials already! Microsoft Windows. A minute to learn... a lifetime to master
Does it have vi? Screw you, Emacs users. Light, powerful, efficient and easy to use, vi is clearly the editor that intelligent programmers use. Written in a much more powerful programming language than the obviously dying Emacs, vi is the editor of editors. I mean, c'mon, imagine Emacs running under CYGWIN on a Win box! That's like running three kludges at one time!
Comparing it to Windows will be a moot point, since El Dorado is going to have a 40% larger code base than XP.
BillG: Great! It looks like we have another winner on our hands. People sure do want that Unix stuff. Oh, wait...
SFU PM: erm...
BillG: You're fired.
This is the first line in the Overview of the product on MS' website: "Before you continue, it is important to understand that the Beta release of any product will not display the stability of a shipped Microsoft product." I'm not sure how to take that....
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First, for home users of MS-Windows anything, if you are happy with it, enjoy. Now for the nerds, this latest Microsoft offer sounds like combining the reliability of Microsoft software with the user friendly attributes of Unix software. Such a deal!
Yeah.. I am.. I just looked it up. 1 Peso = 9 Pennies. My bad.
My experience of SFU was that it was much more reliable than Hummingbird's implementation of NFS client.
Almost anything is more reliable than Hummingbird's NFS.
Viewing the file in hex and yelling it out across the room to somebody else who types it back in is more reliable than Hummingbird's NFS.
"Except for the $150 worth of Windows you have to buy to run it, of course."
I'd rephrase that to something more along the lines of "Except for the $150 you have to pay for Windows." I'm hard pressed to say it's actually worth $150... but that may just be me.
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Oh, come on, "crisco", "speculum", and "pissed-off iguana" are hardly words that could offend even the most sensible of ears.
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Viewing the file in hex and yelling it out across the room to somebody else who types it back in is more reliable than Hummingbird's NFS.
Great! We've been looking for a replacement, does the speed compare favourably too?
But, does it come with ed, the standard text editor?
ed, man! !man ed?
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Who said it was out-of-the box?
How do you define no glitches?
:)No glitches? Erm, everything appeared to work without problems. How would you define it?
A clear vision, this Microsoft has!
- Buy Interix
- Give product away for free
- ????
- Profit!!
And the best thing about it is that it uses SCO code licensed by Microsoft and now they're giving it away for free. This is a call to arms. All /.'ers now need to write Darl McBride and try to convince him that he needs to sue Microsoft too for giving away their code for free and decreasing the value of Unix. It should be pretty easy since he's such a nitwit anyhow. This could be great.