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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. Re:so lets make this simple by TWX · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Wow, that's a lot of acronyms. I've seen more on one page, of course, but not in two sentences.

    Let me try to break this down...

    For your information, there's also a windows Network Filesystem server that International Business Machines uses in its TotalStorage Network Attached Storage line.

    It's REALLY, REALLY nice to be able to have a single network attached storage that serves windows and Network Filesystem shares, and interfaces with the International Business Machines Digital Linear Tape Libraries.

    Okay, I'm done now.

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  2. Re:Samba won't be popular until... by bhtooefr · · Score: 0, Redundant

    LOL... and I bet some people would be clamoring for an OSS alternative to Windows SMB/CIFS on Windows. Then again, some people would be clamoring for an OSS alternative to Notepad (come to think of it, Notepad SHOULD be replaced).

  3. Re:so lets make this simple by janbjurstrom · · Score: 0, Redundant

    That, Sir, was a pretty insightful description. Thank you.

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  4. Re:Get there together by dJCL · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Nah, I've got all that running, but the firewall is running linux. Other then that, they all work fine together.

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  5. Outwit works great with SFU by Diomidis+Spinellis · · Score: 0, Redundant
    Now that you have SFU freely available go download and install outwit. Outwit is a suite of tools based on the Unix tool design principles allowing the processing of Windows application data with sophisticated data manipulation pipelines. The outwit tools offer access to the Windows clipboard, the registry, the event log, relational databases, document properties, shell links, and the event log. A Usenix technical conference paper describes the tools and a number of applications.

    #include "/dev/tty"

  6. This news broke in October, and it's not free! by $QIO · · Score: 0, Redundant

    This deal has been offered since October 2003 from http://www.microsoft.com/windows/sfu/unixproresour ces/freesfu30.asp. It is not free -- the shipping comes to about $11. Very, very old news !