Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com content-class: urn:content-classes:message Subject: RE: Cygwin vs: Windoze services for Unix Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 16:20:07 -0500 Message-ID: <03C99898510C8C47945B932907D99AAA02E896@E2KMEMMCS1.ftbco.ftn.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.6375.0 From: "DePriest, Jason R." To: "cygwin-list" X-OriginalArrivalTime: 18 Jul 2003 21:20:07.0627 (UTC) FILETIME=[5CDF89B0:01C34D72] X-DCC-FTBDCCD1-Metrics: dns1 1130; Body=0 Fuz1=0 Fuz2=0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id h6ILKVV02219 I used to have a universal subscription to MSDN (until I switched departments) and I was able to test Windows Services for Unix and the (at the time) separate Interix subsystem. They do what they are supposed to do, but cygwin does a whole lot more. I found the cygwin project to be actively developed and far more robust than the other offerings. I have no idea what the newest versions of WSfU offer, but I highly doubt it has the day-to-day usefulness of cygwin. -Jason -----Original Message----- From: Doug VanLeuven [mailto:roamdad@attglobal.net] Sent: Friday, July 18, 2003 12:00 PM To: cygwin-list Subject: Re: Cygwin vs: Windoze services for Unix The interix subsystem isn't as flexible as cygwin IMHO. The useful bits are the NFS utilities which do not have source & password synchronization which has source for *nix (not GPL). terry wrote: > I just received an evaluation copy with Linux Magazine as was > wondering if this is a direct 'competitive' product to Cygwin, and if > so, what are the significant functional differences (other than the > obvious - not being open source / free software and Cygwin being > higher quality, of course ;>). -- Doug VanLeuven -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/