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Unix To Beef Up Longhorn

Posted by Hemos on from the going-to-the-root-of-the-matter dept.

An anonymous reader writes "VNUnet has a story about Longhorn having the ability to run unix or linux code via SFU." Microsoft's site has a lot more information about SFU itself. Regardless of ideological bent, it's an interesting piece o' technology.

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  1. My Win desktop already runs *nix code... by lacrymology.com · · Score: 5, Informative

    http://www.cygwin.com

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  2. So, this is new how? by Kenja · · Score: 5, Informative

    Hate to break it to yall, but there have been some VERY nice UNIX(tm) layers for Windows since NT 4.0 The same people that made Exceed X11 for Windows also made a kernel add-in with full POSIX support. All the UNIX goddies where there and it even seemed to increase stability. Microsoft purchased the company after they failed to get their software to run well on Windows 2k (they ran out of money and couldn't afford to redevlope). If they get this stuff working again in Longhorn, I'll be first in line to buy it when its released.

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  3. SCO code... by cloudless.net · · Score: 5, Informative
    From the article:

    "Zions confirmed that Microsoft is working to replace all open-source code in SFU with commercially licensed alternatives. Last year it licensed Unix software from SCO."

  4. Windows Services for UNIX by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    There is valid historical reasons for this. The first versions of SFU contained an NFS and NIS server so that UNIX clients could connect to an NT Server. Only later were "Unix Services" added to the product.