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Microsoft to Stop Releasing Services for Unix

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the end-of-the-road dept.

lilrowdy18 writes "According to a recent article, Microsoft will stop releasing any new versions of Services for Unix. SFU 3.5 will continue to be supported until 2011 and will have extended support until 2014. From what the article hints at, Microsoft wants Unix interoperability integrated into the OS. Microsoft says that this integration couldn't be done with past architectures."

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  1. SFU was only good for one thing by DrXym · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Free NFS. Other than that it was a pigs ear. It was just various Unix bits and pieces slapped together and massively intrusive to install, requiring reboots and services to be running all the time. I tried it for a bit, noticed the huge slowdown in startup times, the poor Unix environment which was next useless and uninstalled it. Cygwin is miles better.


    And if you really need a real Unix / Linux on XP then colinux can provide it running at near-native performance.

  2. Re:Microsoft's answer to UNIX by dubious9 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Just goes to show ya, the old koan is finally coming true.

    Given enough time and money, eventually Microsoft will re-invent Unix

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    Why, o why must the sky fall when I've learned to fly?