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October 31, 2003Windows Services for UnixHave you been on a Windows machine and wished you had your favorite Unix tools, and don't want to install cygwin? Consider checking out Microsoft's Windows Services for Unix. I was suprised to find out that it won the Open Source Product Excellence Award for Best System Integration Software at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo. Thats right, a penguin gave a bear an award. Personally I really like cygwin, but I never knew this even existed. I will have to take a look and see how well integrated it is. Having clean NFS support to my Linux and BSD boxes could be very useful without the hacks I have had to do as of late. Then again Samba 3.0 works just great on the Windows side of things. Anyways, if you are finding yourself more and more using Windows and need your Unix tools, here you go. Posted by SilverStr at October 31, 2003 10:52 AM | TrackBackComments
I vaguely remember looking at this last year, but can't remember why I disqualified it as not worthy as checking out. Might have been because it requires $100+ CAL's. It seems to have a quite a few new features over 1.0 and 2.0. It has a place for server/software migrations. But if you want to run X, KDE, SSH, PostgreSQL, Apache, etc then the packages that have been already tuned & debugged by the Cygwin folks are the best way to go. I suppose the major advantage of doing it the Microsoft way is increased performance, since Cygwin has that cygwin1.dll that translates NT POSIX calls, and depends on people reverse-engineering, trail & error, (mis)understanding API specs. The dream solution would be that MS would contribute to Cygwin, stamp/certify their build of it, and sell it themselves. MS embracing open source? Wishful thinking. The ACL support in Samba3 and the Linux Kernel is definetly very nice, and transparent to Windows users & admins. Posted by: Wim at November 6, 2003 12:51 AM |
 
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