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Windows Services For Unix Now Free Of Charge

Posted by timothy on from the making-it-up-in-volume dept.

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."

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  1. bass ackwards by Doc+Ruby · · Score: 5, Funny

    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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  3. Great Acronym! SFU! by slacy · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.)

  4. Re:I have had unix tools for windows for a long ti by Bingo+Foo · · Score: 5, Funny
    one word, cwywin

    Ah, yes. The Welsh-centric fork of Cygwin.

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  5. Samba won't be popular until... by Jahat · · Score: 5, Funny

    it is ported to Windows. (BTW... Got this from some other post on Slashdot a long time ago)

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  6. Re:Great Acronym! SFU! by Dave2+Wickham · · Score: 5, Funny

    I've already heard it as STFU...

    Anyway, it's still better than the Critical Update Notification Tool.

  7. Re:Microsoft motives? by FuzzyBad-Mofo · · Score: 5, Funny

    What do you want them to do?

    Die, dissipate, dissolve, terminate, and ceace function.

  8. Re:so lets make this simple by Syberghost · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.