Windows Services For Unix Now Free Of Charge 687
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."
bass ackwards (Score:5, Funny)
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Windows finally gets NFS support? (Score:2, Funny)
Good business decision (Score:5, Funny)
So now the answer is "free". I'm not saying I like Windows servers over Unix-style boxen - but this was a good business choice for MS.
Of course, that's just my opinion. I could be wrong.
Great Acronym! SFU! (Score:5, Funny)
Anyone who disagrees with microsoft can just SFU! I mean, install SFU from microsoft.com.
(Just in case somebody missed it, SFU = Shut the F**k Up.)
Where will this end? (Score:0, Funny)
Windows needs more apps (Score:5, Funny)
"Salesman" and "IT Guy" in same conversation? (Score:3, Funny)
Yeah, MS marketing director is clever indeed... (Score:5, Funny)
Previously, I used to think that at least half of the MS customers or so would have a pure Unix environment. Thanks for enlightening me, Dennis!
Hmm... (Score:5, Funny)
I'm not sure about being able to write the filesystem image to disk, Windows might not allow that.
Re:I have had unix tools for windows for a long ti (Score:5, Funny)
Ah, yes. The Welsh-centric fork of Cygwin.
Samba won't be popular until... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Microsoft motives? (Score:2, Funny)
SCO loses all money trying to protect their IP and is forced to sell all corporate assets.
MS buys UNIX patents for pennies on the peso and equipped with UNIX & Windows declares "Operation Freedom" vs Novell and their SuSE/Ximian alliance.
World domination is it's own motivation.
Re:bass ackwards (Score:2, Funny)
Every single day... (Score:2, Funny)
IT Guy: Reboot and see if it gets better.
Sometimes, it's the clueless and the stubborn. Nobody wins in that situation, except Microsoft.
Re:No multithreading (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Great Acronym! SFU! (Score:5, Funny)
Anyway, it's still better than the Critical Update Notification Tool.
Re:MS' Hopes (Score:3, Funny)
You're kidding, right? These have all been ported to win32.
By the way, does anyone else have the feeling that SFU would more appropriately be called SFW? (which could be expanded to Services For Windows, Software Finally Working,
Re:Microsoft motives? (Score:5, Funny)
What do you want them to do?
Die, dissipate, dissolve, terminate, and ceace function.
Re:Microsoft motives? (Score:5, Funny)
I've got a suggestion, but this is a family forum.
Chris Mattern
Re:Samba won't be popular until... (Score:3, Funny)
. . . come to think of it, Notepad SHOULD be replaced
It already has been. It's called regedit. You can find it in the root of your Windows directory.
Re:so lets make this simple (Score:2, Funny)
vi? (Score:4, Funny)
MS Conversation (Score:5, Funny)
BillG: Great! It looks like we have another winner on our hands. People sure do want that Unix stuff. Oh, wait...
SFU PM: erm...
BillG: You're fired.
IMPORTANT MESSAGE FOR MS!! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Samba is there but always playing catch up (Score:4, Funny)
Re:"Salesman" and "IT Guy" in same conversation? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:vi? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Microsoft motives? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Microsoft motives? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:so lets make this simple (Score:5, Funny)
Almost anything [faqs.org] is more reliable than Hummingbird's NFS.
Viewing the file in hex and yelling it out across the room to somebody else who types it back in is more reliable than Hummingbird's NFS.
Re:Free? (Score:2, Funny)
"Except for the $150 worth of Windows you have to buy to run it, of course."
I'd rephrase that to something more along the lines of "Except for the $150 you have to pay for Windows." I'm hard pressed to say it's actually worth $150... but that may just be me.
Re:Microsoft motives? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:so lets make this simple (Score:4, Funny)
Great! We've been looking for a replacement, does the speed compare favourably too?
Re:vi? (Score:2, Funny)
is much easier than:
ctrl-x,ctrl-f,ctrl-x,ctrl-c
ed? (Score:3, Funny)
ed, man! !man ed [gnu.org]?
Re:so lets make this simple (Score:2, Funny)
Who said it was out-of-the box?
How do you define no glitches?
:)No glitches? Erm, everything appeared to work without problems. How would you define it?
Re:so lets make this simple (Score:2, Funny)
- Buy Interix
- Give product away for free
- ????
- Profit!!
Re:so lets make this simple (Score:2, Funny)