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Microsoft to 'Support and Usurp' Unix

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the highly-unlikely-in-the-near-future dept.

qedramania writes "Computerworld has a report on the latest Windows server release and their Unix strategy." From the article: "R2 is built on the Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 and is geared towards specific workloads such as storage management, branch office server management, as well as identity and access management. It also provides a subsystem which supports Posix applications."

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  1. Re:Oh, great... by jb.hl.com · · Score: 4, Informative

    Microsoft has had a POSIX subsystem for ages. It's called Windows Services for UNIX, and it works quite nicely. It's not a new thing.

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  2. Re:How much was for UNIX and now runs on MS? by CastrTroy · · Score: 4, Informative

    The problem is, is that a lot of the unix software although ported to windows, doesn't run as well on windows. (i think) Apache starts a new process for each request by calling fork(). This works good in Unix where it doesn't take a whole lot of resources ( under a million cycles) to start a new process. However, just starting a process on windows takes 5 million cycles. Meaning unless the implementation of apache on windows, or windows itself is changed, then running apache on windows will always be inferior. I imagine the same problem exists on many other servers that have been ported to windows. It's nice for people to experiment with these tools without switching their OS, but really they should be switching the OS if they want the best experience possible.

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