Windows Services for Unix as of version 3.5 is free for download There are companion utilities (e.g. apache, automake, autoconf, bash, etc...) on the interix site. SFU 3.5 Interix Utilities

OK. That''s nice. What does it do? And is it trustworthy?

From the white paper link at the bottom of the first hyper-linked page... Which you may want to take a look at, you know, just in case it tells you what these things do...

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Summary

This paper provides an introduction to the features and benefits of Windows Services for UNIX 3.5, the award-winning interoperability toolkit from Microsoft. Windows Services for UNIX enables Windows and UNIX clients and servers to share network resources, integrates account management, simplifies cross-platform management, and provides a full UNIX scripting and application execution environment that runs natively on Windows.

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Has anyone actually used this? Is it better than cygwin?

It''s different than cygwin. Cygwin is userland and appland.

"Sneftel is correct, if rather vulgar." --Flarelocke

so it''s kind of a cross-mojination of samba and cygwin? But without any of that naughty open source code?

I''ve seen it advertised, I''m just not 100% sure what new benefits it brings. Daresay I''m missing something...

I thought it was merely an M$ supported POSIX layer. Like cygwin.dll itself. Looks like it does come with some stuff on top of that...

By the way, any ext2/3 support?

[edited by - coldacid on January 20, 2004 1:00:10 PM]

I doubt it supports ext2 or ext3. but you CAN mount NFS shares (iirc) which made me drool.

You can buy an ext2 driver for windows someplace. works natively, not like that explore2fs thing.

quote: Original post by mrbastard
so it''s kind of a cross-mojination of samba and cygwin? But without any of that naughty open source code?

I''ve seen it advertised, I''m just not 100% sure what new benefits it brings. Daresay I''m missing something...

Ditto that.

You can''t install it on WinXP Home